MetaFilter posts tagged with rembrandt

"Onze helden zijn terug!"

zarq — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:43:19 -0800

On April 13, the Rijksmuseum will reopen to the public after a renovation and makeover that took five years longer than expected and went tens of millions of dollars over budget. The museum's most famous painting was also one of the last to be restored to its original location: Rembrandt's "The Night Watch". Sponsor ING Bank celebrated with a unique and special flashmob. Background * The Amsterdam Herald * Slideshow of the museum's new digs Explore the Rijksmuseum Online * Rijksstudio (Previously!) * The Collection * Masterpieces, including The Night Watch (Formal name: "The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out.") and The Milkmaid * A Timeline of Dutch history and background on Dutch historical figures. The Night Watch The painting was incorporated into the plot of a 1942 Nazi biopic entitled "Rembrandt". (That's the full movie, but it's in German.) * Rembrandt Painting: The Night Watch * The Art Wolf: "The night watch" * Art Encyclopedia 2013: The Night Watch by Rembrandt

Rembrandt in White

quin — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:56:29 -0800

The Art of Ironing is, primarily, a Russian advertisement for steam irons, however it is also a remarkable demonstration of recreating art from unusual materials; in this case, a simple white piece of cloth.

Rijksmuseum remix

Horace Rumpole — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:27:13 -0800

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch and Vermeer's The Milkmaid, among many other masterpieces, today unveiled the Rijksstudio, 125,000 digitized images of its collections, available in a zoomable interface online or as high-resolution public-domain downloads (account creation required for the latter).

Caravaggio and Rembrandt, two great tastes that go well together

Kattullus — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:34:08 -0800

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam invites you to compare Caravaggio and Rembrandt. For an overview of Rembrandt's work here are Rembrandt van Rijn: Life and Work and A Web Catalogue of Rembrandt Paintings. For Caravaggio there's caravaggio.com which makes use of the Italian website Tutta l'opera del Caravaggio.

a description of everyday life

xod — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:24:58 -0800

In the 17th century Dutch painters began to create informal paintings that focused on the features and/or expressions of anonymous people. These were called tronies. Although a tronie showed a person’s face, it wasn’t considered a portrait. [...] In 1995 Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens began a series of tronies featuring his daughter Paula. some images NSFW

Rembrandt at the Getty

matteo — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:31:39 -0800

Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits. No one knows why Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn began painting half-length portraits of religious figures late in his life. The subject was uncommon in Protestant Amsterdam, where he lived. Paintings and sculptures, deemed idolatrous by Luther's followers, were not permitted in churches; existing images were removed and often destroyed. In 1681, a local authority described Rembrandt as the "foremost heretic in the art of painting." In Los Angeles, the Getty Center brings together, for the first time, 16 of these mysterious paintings. More inside.

The Passion of the Painters

matteo — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:55:24 -0800

Thema: Passion Very good German site with depictions of the Passion of the Christ in the history of the art, from El Greco to Antonello da Messina, from Il Guercino to Botticelli. And there also, among many others, Rembrandt and Schiele and Rubens and Caravaggio Plenty of other good links here. As Bernard Berenson wrote, "A painter’s first business is to rouse the tactile sense, for I must have the illusion... (more inside)