- Rembrandt is one of the most influential artists in history. Here, we will explore his numerous self-portraits.
- For a long time, the painting in the Mauritshuis was the only self-portrait of Rembrandt known for certain to date from the year of his death.
- Self-Portrait with Two Circles is one of his last self-portraits started in 1665 at the age of 59. Among all the Rembrandt’s self-portraits...
- Eight Rembrandt self portraits are presented here, spanning Remdrandt's 40+ year career as a master of representational oil painting.
- On the other hand, Rembrandt’s self-portraits can be viewed as an opportunity for self-investigation and revelation of the artistic inner self.
- This ageing face was to become the focus of some 20 self-portraits that Rembrandt produced from now until his death in 1669.
- Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, 1659, oil on canvas, 84.5 x 66 cm (National Gallery of Art) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris.
- Rembrandt's self-portraits were created by the artist looking at himself in a mirror,[16] and the paintings and drawings therefore reverse his actual features.
- Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with Saskia (c.1635). This painting of Rembrandt with his wife Saskia was long understood as an image of the two Rembrandts...
- Rembrandt appears to have derived the positions of the parapet and the arm from a portrait by Titian, and there are strong echoes too of a self portrait by...