Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606 to 1669 was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, the same title given to this period for art, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, the Dutch Golden Age was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres in painting. Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity. In his paintings and prints he exhibited knowledge of classical iconography, which he moulded to fit the requirements of his own experience; thus, the depiction of a biblical scene was informed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the specific text, his assimilation of classical composition, and his observations of Amsterdam's Jewish population. Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called "one of the great prophets of civilization."
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'A Young man, perhaps the Artist's Son Titus' by Rembrandt in 1663 £6.99
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'A Young Scholar and his Tutor, detail' by Rembrandt in 1629-30 £6.99
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'Adam and Eve' by Rembrandt in 1638 £6.99
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'An Old Man in Military Costume' by Rembrandt in 1631-32 £6.99
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'David and Jonathan, detail' by Rembrandt in 1642 £6.99
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'Flora' by Rembrandt in 1634 £6.99
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'Girl at a Window' by Rembrandt in 1645 £6.99
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'Holy Family' by Rembrandt in 1645 £6.99
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'Jacob Caressing Benjamin, detail' by Rembrandt in 1637 £6.99
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'Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem' by Rembrandt in 1630 £6.99
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'Large Self-Portrait' by Rembrandt in 1652 £6.99
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'Man in a Fur-lined Coat' by Rembrandt in 1660-65 £6.99
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'Man in Armour' by Rembrandt £6.99
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'Moses with the Ten Commandments, detail' by Rembrandt in 1659 £6.99
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'Portrait of a Lady with a Lap Dog' by Rembrandt in 1665 £6.99
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'Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels' by Rembrandt in 1656 £6.99
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'Portrait of Remonstrant Minister Johannes Wtenbogaert' by Rembrandt in 1633 £6.99
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'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by Rembrandt in 1630-31 £6.99
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'Rembrandt and Saskia in the parable of the Prodigal Son, detail' by Rembrandt in 1635 £6.99
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'Saint Jerome in an Italian Landscape' by Rembrandt in 1653-54 £6.99
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'Saskia van Uylenburgh, the Wife of the Artist' by Rembrandt £6.99
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'Self-Portrait' by Rembrandt in 1663 £6.99
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'Self-portrait' by Rembrandt in 1658 £6.99
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'Self-Portrait c1659' by Rembrandt. £6.99
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'Self-portrait in a Velvet Beret, detail' by Rembrandt in 1634 £6.99
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'Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, detail' by Rembrandt in 1639 £6.99
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'Self-portrait wearing a Hat and two Chains' by Rembrandt in 1642 £6.99
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'Sketch for The Knight with the Falcon, known as The Crusader' by Rembrandt £6.99
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'St. Peter in Prison (The Apostle Peter Kneeling), detail' by Rembrandt in 1631 £6.99
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'Study for one of the Syndics, Volckert Jansz' by Rembrandt in 1662 £6.99
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'The Abduction of Ganymede' by Rembrandt in 1635 £6.99
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'The Pancake Woman' by Rembrandt in 1665 £6.99
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'The Unruly child' by Rembrandt in 1635 £6.99
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'Titus at his desk' by Rembrandt in 1665 £6.99
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'Ahasuerus, Haman and Esther' by Rembrandt in 1660 £6.99
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Christ Preaching (The Hundred Guilder Print)' by Rembrandt in 1649 £5.99
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'Christ presented to the people- the oblong plate' by Rembrandt in 1655 £6.99
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'Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol Bel' by Rembrandt in 1633 £6.99
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'Dutch Farmhouse in Light and Shadow' by Rembrandt in 1635 £6.99
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'Dutch Farmhouse in Sunlight' by Rembrandt in 1635 £6.99
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'Jupiter and Antiope' by Rembrandt in 1659 £6.99
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'Portrait of a couple as figures from the Old Testament (The Jewish bride)’ by Rembrandt in 1665-69 £6.99
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'The Circumcision in the Stable' by Rembrandt in 1654 £6.99
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'The Concord of the State' by Rembrandt in 1637-45 £6.99
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'The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis' by Rembrandt in 1661-62 £6.99