Mostly identified as a painter, in parallel he was a skilled draughtsman and printmaker (producing around 350 etchings). Rembrandt’s paintings were colorful and theatrical at first, full of ...

The heavy impasto (thickness of paint), the bold brush strokes, and the warm brown palette are reminiscent of Rembrandt portraiture at its best. The pale colors and excited forms of the Mannerists ...

A painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn that was recently discovered in the attic of a Maine home has sold for nearly $1.2 million at auction. The 17th century oil painting in a hand ...

He had made his success with portraits, but Rembrandt preferred to paint religious subjects, which failed to interest Calvinist Amsterdam. Before his death, Rembrandt devoted 600 known drawings ...

To create the perfect reflective paint for the lieutenant’s uniform, the team concluded, Rembrandt mixed pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar—mineral variants that are naturally yellow ...

The great Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn might be considered ... a connoisseur of literature, art and tobacco. A dinner jacket suit, from which the painter has removed himself, sits ...

The Night Watch was supposed to be a group portrait - a pretty popular form of art in the Dutch Golden Age for well-to-do gentlemen and their various societies. But Rembrandt broke all the rules ...

Rembrandt van Rijn's 1636 'Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume, 1636. The artist often portrayed himself as different characters in his prints. This piece is featured in the LSU Museum of Art's ...