Rembrandt

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.

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

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.

Detail of a self portrait at the exhibition 'Late Rembrandt' in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

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Turner and the Masters at the Tate presented a selection of magnificent paintings by JMW Turner (1775-1851) alongside related works by the old masters and contemporaries he strove to imitate, rival and surpass. Bringing together around one hundred pictures of supreme historical significance from collections around the world, this was the first exhibition to look at Turner’s work in the company of his greatest predecessors. The exhibition provided an unprecedented opportunity to view Turner’s…

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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.