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The statue of Rembrandt was made in 1852 by sculptor Louis Royer and is of cast iron. It was cast in one piece and it is Amsterdam's oldest surviving statue in a public space. The current design of the square is the result of a €3.5 million renovation completed in December 2009. The statue is on a grey granite base bearing a replica of his ...
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (/ ˈ r ɛ m b r æ n t, ˈ r ɛ m b r ɑː n t /; [2] Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)ˌsoːɱ vɑn ˈrɛin] ⓘ; 15 July 1606 [1] – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
Rembrandt statue and the sculptures of The Night Watch in 3D at the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam Rembrandt statue in Leiden Rembrandt and Saskia. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) is one of the most famous, [1] [2] controversial, and one of the best expertly researched (visual) artists in history.
The Rembrandt House Museum (Dutch: Museum Het Rembrandthuis) is a museum located in a former house in the Jodenbreestraat, in the center of Amsterdam. Between 1639 and 1658, the house was occupied by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn , who also had his studio and art dealership there.
Rembrandt and the Night Watch; Putting Names to the Famous Faces in Rembrandt’s Night Watch; Discussion of the work by Janina Ramirez: Art Detective Podcast, 01 May 2017; Gigapixel photograph of The Night Watch Multimode Image Viewer "Operation Night Watch". Rijksmuseum. Web site about work done on the painting, updated from time to time.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. It includes works from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century, spanning the arts of the Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as the French decorative arts, the jewellery of René Lalique and some of the most important painters of all times works such as Rembrandt, Monet, Rubens, Manet, Renoir ...
There are multiple versions of Rembrandt's Head of Christ which are in the possession internationally of cultural institutions and individuals. During the course of the 19th-century it was supposed that these similar heads were based on a "Jewish model" (leading some to suppose that Rembrandt himself was Jewish, since he lived in what was considered the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam).
Rembrandt's teachers in Leiden were Jacob van Swanenburgh [note 1] (from 1621 to 1623, [5] with whom he learned pen drawing [6]) and Joris van Schooten. [note 2] [7]However, his six-month stay in Amsterdam in 1624, with Pieter Lastman and Jan Pynasc, was decisive in his training: Rembrandt learned pencil drawing, the principles of composition, and working from nature. [6]