Rembrandt's last portrait print came about because, on 22 December 1664, the artist's son, Titus, who lived with his father in Amsterdam, happened to be walking down the street in Leiden when he was [...] Read More
17th-Century Dutch Republic
Four Focussed Studies on Rembrandt Drawings
Thea Vignau-Wilberg, Rembrandt auf Papier. Werk und Wirkung. Rembrandt and his Followers. Drawings from Munich . With an essay by Peter Schatborn. [Cat. exh. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, December 5, 2001 [...] Read More
De verzameling Hofstede de Groot: Van Cuyp tot Rembrandt
The first Dutch university-educated art historian, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), grew up in the North Netherlandish towns of Kampen and Groningen and, because of poor health, at spas in [...] Read More
Northern Nocturnes: Nightscapes in the Age of Rembrandt
The central motivation behind this exhibition was to place the National Gallery of Ireland's Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Rembrandt in a wider context. One of the great achievements of the show [...] Read More
Carel Fabritius 1622-1654
On the morning of Monday, October 12, 1654, the former sexton of the Oude Kerk in Delft was sitting to Carel Fabritius for his portrait in the latter’s studio on the Doelenstraat. Between 10 and 10:30 [...] Read More
Am Anfang war das Wort. Das Ende der “stommen schilderkonst” am Beispiel Rembrandts
The point of departure for Christiane Häslein is the observation that in many of his works, Rembrandt attempts to visualize the intangible: the spoken word. She explains this phenomenon as the [...] Read More