Rembrandt

The hero of our novel, thus, stops talking to people at noon – and stops consorting with people in general; instead, he has begun having lunch with the buildings of London, the streets of London, the benches of London, and with its parks. (Similarly, everywhere in large cities across Europe, the poor mutter and eat their lunch in parks, in churchyards, in graveyards, opposite to the monuments of kings and generals, near fountains.) . . . (pp. 157-58) To avoid mockery and curious questions in…

Artists created works of art that represent trees as mirrors that reflect the century they stood in and what that generation stood for. In Rembrandt Harmensz painting, Landscape with a Stone Bridge, simply created with oil paint on a panel of oak in 1638, the era of this time is…

The reading and the lecture discuss weather the woman in the white bonnet is or not the Rembrandt’s work. The professor does not agree with the reading’s author and cast s doubts on several key points that are presented in the text. To begin with, the professor claims that on detail investigation it is revealed that the fur collar on the picture was added later. The motive was to present the picture of the elite lady to increase the worth of the painting. She also mentions the pigment analysis…

In this 1992 American-Japanese documentary directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels, we are shown a 92-minute glimpse of the art of cinematography since the conception of cinema in the late eighteen-hundreds to contemporary films in the late nineteen-eighties. “Visions of Light: the Art of Cinematography” (1992) is a chronologic collage of several films, narrated in English by different directors of photography; the cinematography of this documentary is done by Detroit’s own…

Castiglione (1616-1670) and Rembrandt (1606-1669) were the first two artists introduced the true artwork of Monotypes. William Blake (1757-1827) was another major artist of monotype. He developed the technique of monotypes by using egg tempera to create some of the images for his poems. However, because he was quite secretive with his unique techniques, the methods he applied was not popular. During the etching revival, Vicomte Ludovic Napoleon Lepic (1839-1889) introduced a new technique,…

that beauty but, Rembrandt would “have immortalized” (line 18) it. To make sense of the comparison between the two artists’ ability to capture Aunt Frieda’s “scarred beauty”, one can look at each respective artist’s work titled Descent from the Cross. In this work, Rembrandt’s depiction fundamentally transforms Rubens original work into a powerful realism that allows the viewer to develop a deeper understanding of Christ’s suffering. Thus, this relates back to Aunt Frieda as Rembrandt would be…

One of the most famous people that brought light into darkness was Johann Sebastian Bach. He was referred to as the musical giant; a name he held for many years. When he was a young he was very religious, and he considered every piece of music he wrote a prayer. He was an organist. Bach made a vast number of keyboard notes, though his most famous key was the D minor, because of this key he is so famous. He made the well tempered cavalier. People liked that song so much that there were over…

essay I will compare two portrait paintings of Nicolaes Tulp who was a Dutch Surgeon and Dr. Samuel D. Gross who was an Academic Surgeon and a professor at a medical school. The first painting is “The Anatomy Lesson,” which was painted in 1632 by Rembrandt. The second painting is “The Gross Clinic which was painted in 1875 by Thomas C. Eakins. Both paintings are oil on canvas that depicts the doctor’s experiences with teaching the anatomy of the human body to other surgeons in training. In “The…

Francisco Goya was a Spanish romantic painter. He was known for his disruptive work and royal paintings. Goya’s paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected modern historical disturbances during his time (Harris-Frankfort 1). Goya had influenced Romantics of the early 1800s, with his skill of capturing dramatic moments and using his fantastic imagination (Stokstad 1). Goya’s paintings went from lighthearted and jolly to deeply pessimistic (Vorrhies 1). Francisco Goya was born on March 30,…

1. Discuss the philosophies of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibnitz. How did they affect the Baroque era? Are there parts of their philosophies you agree with or disagree with? What are they? Why? The philosophy of Descartes was, “I think, therefore I am” and that God created us then left us alone. Spinoza believed that everything has a purpose and that “God and Nature” were the same. He explained that Freedom is the choice to say “Yes”, and understand why the results happen. Leibniz…