What makes this painting revolutionary is that Rembrandt took what could have been a boring row of figures and turned it into a lively action scene. One contemporary said that it made other group ...

The second-most prominent figure is the lieutenant ... an arsenic-laden mineral that Rembrandt used in later paintings like The Jewish Bride. After discovering the pararealgar and semi-amorphous ...

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Purchased with Funds ... who looks the viewer straight in the eye, which Rembrandt's figures seldom, if ever, do. The earliest known comparison of Lievens ...

“I'm a painter myself, and it was a wonderful composition of figures all stacked up in this boat, and there's a Rembrandt self-portrait within the painting,” Haines said. “It'd be a nice ...

If you were to visit a home in Amsterdam in the 17th Century, you might find, in the kitchen, the library, or even inside the fireplace, a scene of the biblical Queen Esther approaching her ...