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Details. Title: Return of the Prodigal Son. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. Creator's place of death: Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Creator's place of birth: Leiden, the Netherlands. Date created: 1663 - 1665. Style: Bible and Christianity. Provenance: The painting was acquired in 1767 in Paris for the Russian Empress Catherine the Great ...
72 Copy quote. Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. Rembrandt. Art, Nature, Grandchildren. "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975. 64 Copy quote. Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit. Rembrandt.
Order Oil Paintingreproduction. Considered the greatest painter in all of European Art, Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age. As a child, he had an inclination towards painting, and spent three years under the apprenticeship of a local history painter. After another six month apprenticeship with painter Jan ...
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Rembrandt would surpass the inventiveness of Titian and Velazquez with his progressive handling of paint, making it as much a subject in the composition of a painting as his figures. Variations of brush stroke between loose and rough, or the manipulation of textures through scratching or with a palette knife, would all contribute greatly to a ...
The pigment smalt is the most important blue pigment in Rembrandt’s paintings. It is also used in The Night Watch. Under a microcope (50 times magnification) smalt particles look like tiny shards of blue glass Smalt is a finely ground blue glass. It was made by melting quartz (sand), together with potash (as flux), and roasted cobalt ore ...
The tragic story of Lucretia, recounted by Livy, took place in Rome in the sixth century BC during the reign of the tyrannical ruler Tarquinius Superbus. Rembrandt portrays Lucretia in utter anguish, right before her act of suicide. The tension surrounding that awful moment poignantly captures the moral dilemma of a woman forced to choose ...
