Walter Bagehot once said “The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
Rembrandt had a unique way of grasping a person’s personality and emotion by expressing it on his canvasses. Rembrandt who spent most of his life in the Netherlands is known as one of the most famous Dutch artists in history. While many know Rembrandt for his paintings, Rembrandt is considered to be one of the most famous self-taught etchers in history. Rembrandts early style encompassed his skills with lighting composition and color using dramatic light and dark contrasts unlike his later style where he portrayed his subjects using subtle shading.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, born July 15,1606, in Leiden, Netherlands was the son of a miller. Rembrandts parents had 10 children two of which had died in infancy. Rembrandt was the 8th child of the family. During the early years of Rembrandts life, he studied at a Latin School. At the young age of 14, Rembrandt registered at the University of Leiden. From the University, Rembrandt departed to study art. Jacob van Swanenburgh, a local master in Leiden, was the first of Rembrandts two masters with whom he spent three years. Rembrandt then traveled to Amsterdam to study for 6 months beside Peter Lastman. After mastering everything that had been taught to him by Lastman, Rembrandt journeyed back to Leiden. In 1628, Rembrandt started accepting students. Some of Rembrandts students consisted of artists who were already trained, but wanted to expand their artistic abilities. By the end of Rembrandts career he had educated and trained around 50 students. In 1631 Rembran...
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...und his figures. By using light in this way, he created a mysterious feeling that radiated from the figure.
Rembrandts mastery of etching and painting prove that he was one of the greatest Dutch artists in history. His etchings used different methods of hatching, which created the contrast between the light and the darkness. Rembrandt incorporated the contrasts of light and dark into his paintings. By painting, Rembrandt became able to express his deep seated emotion.
Evolution of his paintings expressed the greater emotion of his ever evolving life.
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Strickland, Carol. The Annotated Mona Lisa. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel. 1992. Print.
Goya His name, Francisco Goya, born in 1746, one of Spains most innovative painters and etchers; also one of the triumvirate—including El Greco and Diego Velázquez—of great Spanish masters. Much in the art of Goya is derived from that of Velázquez, just as much in the art of the 19th-century French master Édouard Manet and the 20th-century genius Pablo Picasso is taken from Goya. Trained in a mediocre rococo artistic milieu , Goya transformed this often frivolous style and created works, such
Haynes March 31, 2014 Self Portrait Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Baroque 1636-38 Oil of panel 24 ⅞ x 19 ¾ Very good condition Rembrandt van Rijn, a prolific painter and etcher, is noted as the greatest Dutch artist of the Golden Age. Pasadena’s Norton Simon museum is home to some of his achievements, including one of his many self portraits titled Self Portrait painted in 1636-1638. Throughout his lifetime, Rembrandt documented his life in paintings. This autobiography
1636 Danae, he uses the Greek myth about Danae to create one of the most lifelike depictions of the female nude. In so doing, Rembrandt achieves his aspirations of competing with other renowned figure painters, capturing the natural qualities of human nature, and captivating the viewer by alluring his senses through the image’s eroticism. Rembrandt, a Dutch painter and etcher of the seventeenth century, is one of the most renowned artists in European history. At the start of his career, he painted
This paper references the following works: Olympia. Edouard Manet. 1863. Oil on canvas. H. 130; W. 190 cm. Paris, Musée d'Orsay Self Portrait. Rembrandt. 1660. Oil on canvas. 31.61 x 26.5 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Self Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gaugin. Vincent van Gogh. 1888. Oil on canvas. 60.5 x 49.4 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Pieta. Anabale Carricci. 1600. Oil on canvas. 149 x 156 cm. Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy. Woman with Dead Child