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In his great dramatic painting, Rembrandt tells a story from the Old Testament (Daniel 5: 1–5, 25–8). The man in the gold cloak, enormous turban and tiny crown is Belshazzar, King of Babylon. His father had robbed the Temple of Jerusalem of all its sacred vessels. Using these to serve food at a f...
Bust of a Bearded Old Man is Rembrandt’s smallest known painting, and the only grisaille by the artist in private hands. 1 The deep resonance it carries for the beholder arises from an extraordinary paradox: its size—it fits in the palm of one’s hand—belies its monumentality.
A bearded saint stands in a scalloped niche in this small painting. This is Saint Paul, the so-called Apostle to the Gentiles (non-Jews), holding his usual emblems of a book and a sword. Paul was a Jewish convert to Christianity.
Rembrandt painted this compelling oil sketch with powerful and dynamic brushstrokes and, though using a limited palette, with pronounced contrasts of light and dark. Bust of a Bearded Old Man is...
Wilgefortis (Portuguese: Vilgeforte) is a female folk saint whose legend arose in the 14th century, [4] and whose distinguishing feature is a large beard. According to the legend of her life, set in Portugal and Galicia, she was a teenage noblewoman who had been promised in marriage by her father to a Moorish king.
A bearded saint stands in a scalloped niche in this small painting. This is Saint Paul, the so-called Apostle to the Gentiles (non-Jews), holding his usual emblems of a book and a sword. Paul was a Jewish convert to Christianity.
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This study of an old bearded man with a sad, forlorn expression is one of a large number of rapidly executed oil sketches introduced into Rembrandt's oeuvre in the early years of the twentieth century.
