In 1642 Rembrandt completed his most famous painting, the huge group portrait known as The Night Watch, which depicted a company of civic guardsmen marching out to defend their city. (The painting ...

Since time immemorial, humans have used art, skills, and creativity to send out messages. From the early caveman who drew a ...

Rembrandt did not like his legs. This is one of the more surprising revelations from a tour around an extraordinary loan of ...

This was the case with Rembrandt’s famous painting The Night Watch, which instinctively seems like a fairly typical Flemish baroque painting. It’s massive in size, a whopping 12ft x 14ft (3.65m x ...

In 2015, it sold for about $200 million. A 1636 self-portrait by Rembrandt, The Standard Bearer shows the famous artist in the costume of a standard bearer (carrier of a flag or banner).

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Left: Rembrandt Peale; Right ... Oliver Cromwell—and asking if they would pose as their famous forebears in portraits he was recreating. Then he looked across the Atlantic.