After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Prince Youssoupoff: contenant les tableaux, marbres, ivoires et porcelaines qui se
There is little doubt that these two portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn (see also NGA 1942.9.67) were conceived as pendants, or companion pieces. In both, light illuminates the subjects from exactly the same angle.
Prince Youssoupoff: contenant les tableaux, marbres, ivoires et porcelaines qui se
Part of Online Edition: Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century By Arthur K.
In this scene, Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem captures both the beauty of the Italian landscape and the cool, crystalline light that imbues it with its distinctive atmospheric quality. Towering cliffs, surmounted by a round bastion and a sturdy tower, form the dramatic backdrop for the arrival of a Dutch merchant ship in a calm harbor.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 74-75, color repro. 1995 Wheelock, Arthur K.
The “tavola di man di Giotto, di figure piccole, che poi se n’è ita in pezzi” (painting
