Rembrandt

improve the grandeur of the painting. Firstly, the reading mentions that the woman (looked like servant as per the reading) in the painting wore a luxurious collar which was not consistent with her remaining dressing style and author claims that Rembrandt wouldn’t entertain such inconsistencies in his painting. Clarifying the above statement, the professor says the collar was…

discovered of covering the plates with resin, artists began using it for creating art. Since any mistakes could be erased by re-covering the plate with resin and re-working the design. While Rembrandt in our time, is known for his paintings, in his own lifetime he was actually well known for his etchings. Rembrandt was said to bring a life to his etchings and many thought he had discovered secret techniques, as a result he was hailed as a master. Moreover, he was know to work on a plate for a…

In the reading material, the author believes that the painting could not be painted by Rembrandt, which is contradicted by the following lecture. The speaker claims that the painting is actually a work by Rembrandt. According to the reading material, the first piece of evidence is that the woman's fur collar doesn't match with her status. However, the speaker suggests that the wrong part of the painting was added by someone else about a hundred years after the original painting. The additional…

Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home in Haarlem and Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” is like fastening a window to a mirror set at an angle reflecting the occupant of the room and the figures of the passers-by. Nevertheless, had Hals and Rembrandt set up such a mirrors in their studio windows, at Haarlem and Amsterdam, in the middle of the seventeenth century, fixing the reflections by some magical progression, the end results are something like the series of portraits they created. In…

Comparison of Pieces of Rubens and Rembrandt There are two pieces that are provided. Both pieces come from two artists of the Baroque period for adding their faith and beliefs into their work, one who was a Catholic and the other who was a Protestant. The first work presented was completed in 1639 by Peter Paul Rubens and is known as “Consequences of War”. Rubens is a very well known artist of the time with a Catholic faith, that would occasionally affect his artwork. However, this oil painting…

Eastman Johnson was born in Lovell Maine in July 1824. He is most famous for his genres of paintings of scenes from everyday life. He was known as The American Rembrandt in his day. Johnson was a realistic painter in both subject matter and in execution. He focused mainly on important leaders and such as Abraham Lincoln. In 1844 Johnson moved to Washington, D.C., and began to draw crayon portraits. Johnson drew a portrait of John Quincy Adams, which was mantled in the National Portrait Gallery…

There are aspects of both paintings that has caused some to claim that they are unfinished works. However, both works are completed works by Rembrandt. “Portrait of a Rabbi” demonstrates simple use of lines and economical use of paint. There are parts of his clothes in the bottom left corner that are indistinguishable and are made from a few brushstrokes. Rembrandt has used brush effects to create textures and effects of clothes but in this portrait his brushworks only evoke the action of…

train moving fast. Faster than I can imagine, faster than i've ever felt. I can't get off this train i'm stuck, i'm stuck and there's thousands of paintings looking at me.Their mostly self portraits, their Rembrandts staring at me yelling at me. I can't I just can't i'm not a artist. I'm not Rembrandt. I can't understand art like him like any true artist. i'm a fraud I have nothing. I need to know what's going on, I need to, I have to. I venture forth.Theirs thousands of paintings, their stuck…

emotions that are freely experienced and expressed without judgment by others. Colour became symbolic in expressing internal turmoil. Selfies can also be a form of control over Self-image, letting us choose how we’re perceived. The Dutch painters, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) painted over 40 self-portraits and Vincent Van Gogh, (1853–1890) painted over 30 self-portraits. An interesting aspect of Rembrandt’s self-portraits, writers talk about the quality and techniques, but never,…

one of the most compelling periods of Western art (“Rembrandt Biography”). The styles, genres and extreme detail and complexity in his art work made Rembrandt a famous painter during the Baroque Era. Set aside from all the painters during the Baroque era, Rembrandt van Rijn was the most important and famous painter of that…