Art History What Makes Rembrandt So Great? A Look at 10 of His Most Iconic Works. From 'Night Watch' to loving portraits of his wife, these are the paintings that define the Dutch Old Master.

Was this 1660 self-portrait painted with the help of high-tech optics? Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt van Rijn was the definition of an “old master”—a painter so deft ...

Many paintings in this exhibit belong to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Alfred Bader's alma mater, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Some come from the collection of Isabel Bader.

The life work of Rembrandt go on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to recreate the works as they emerged from the artist's studio rather than as they exist today.

Ordinarily, the museum’s 22 Rembrandt paintings are on view in two separate galleries, alongside major paintings by artists like Johannes Vermeer and Frans Hals.

Rembrandt made nearly 100 self-portraits from the 1620s until his death in 1669, including around 50 paintings as well as dozens of etchings and drawings. This Rembrandt self-portrait in oil on ...

In this case, it compares photos to 45,000 paintings in the program from Old Masters like Titian and Rembrandt. The technology also creates a “discriminator,” which judges whether a given ...

These 13 paintings and objects have been missing since the infamous Gardner art heist of March 1990. ... Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633. ... Images from the Visions 2005 Project.

paintings of a Jewish Bride (another Rembrandt allusion), one darkly supine, as if she were asleep. Hyman Bloom's "The Bride," painted around 1941. (Courtesy Stella Bloom Trust/Museum of Fine Arts ...

Rembrandt, who painted images of astonishing dark tactile severity (“He creates shadows by not painting them,” says one observer), was the mesmeric psychologist of the Old Masters.

In the 1930s, the leading Rembrandt scholar of the era, Abraham Bredius, described “Rembrandt in a Red Beret” in a catalog of the painter’s works as “Self-portrait, 1643,” and noted it ...