Rembrandt

A painting now identified as a Peter Paul Rubens sold for $5.1 million at Sotheby's New York, leading Masters Week.

If Judaism’s idea of art is one that can truly represent our frail, fallible humanity, then Rembrandt, who captured faces “without any attempt to beautify them,” is the artist for Jews.

Painting of a bust-length woman looking over her shoulder and wearing a headdress and a large pearl earring.

Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn / #cartoon portrait #Oil Painting Portrait #Portrait Painting

Chiaroscuro refers to the use of light and dark to create the illusion of three-dimensional volume on a flat surface.

Rembrandt: The Night Watch (1642). President Barack Obama stood in front of Rembrandt's 17th-century masterpiece. Golden Rectangles. HTML5 Animation for iPad and Nexus. Elearning

Rembrandt, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism.

Rembrandt self portrait – fascinating in the sheer confidence of the markmaking, the cross hatching sometimes going with the form, and sometimes against. And nowhere is there a solid black without detail.

Leffel’s paintings have, for more than five decades, maintained a conversation with Rembrandt.