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What Rembrandt saw in Balaam
In the rabbinic imagination, messengers from nature convey God's truth - whether stones, trees, or a donkey - when the people ...
The small, oval-shaped paintings were last seen in 1824, when they were privately purchased. "They're extraordinary," said the auctioneer who rediscovered them.
Rembrandt van Rijn, master painter of the Golden Age, made this portrait of himself as a young man in 1634. During his lifetime, he painted, etched and drew some 70 self-portraits. Summerfield ...
Rembrandt van Rijn was famous, wealthy and generally in clover when he painted this majestic portrait that’s now at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. It is, of course, a self-portrait ...
Rembrandt’s “Jewish Heroine From the Hebrew Bible,” is sequestered in a small antechamber of its own, and if you ever sought to be alone with a Rembrandt (or a queen), here is your chance.
When conservators used X-rays to analyze Rembrandt’s 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” they discovered something unexpected under its surface: lead.
The Rembrandthuis reopened after a four-month closure, offering 30 percent more Rembrandt in the building where the artist lived and worked.
A 17th century portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt sold for $1.4 million in Thomaston, Maine, a state record.
New results from the Rijksmuseum’s Operation Night Watch suggest that Rembrandt treated his canvas with a lead-based substance before painting the ground layer.
A disputed oil sketch was painted by Dutch master Rembrandt, researchers have concluded after two years of study.