Rembrandt

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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.

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

Details of The Jewish Bride, c, 1665, by Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Chiaroscuro in art refers to the use of light and dark to render form. Learn more about it and see master examples here.

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.

Long Live Rembrandt | 10

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.