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Shadow and Substance: Rembrandt Self-Portraits |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Susan Fegley Osmond |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 5,646 Words, 34,497 Characters |
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Rembrandt by Himself opened at the National Gallery in London and is at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, the Netherlands, through January 9. Also in The Hague, at the Contemporary Museum through January 9, is Rembrandt 2000, an exhibition in which contemporary artists pay tribute to the great painter. The recently renovated Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam, its interior restored as far as possible to its appearance in Rembrandt's day, reopened in September. In the museum's new wing next door through January 9 is Rembrandt's Treasures, showing about a hundred works from his art collection, some alongside his own works that used similar elements, and examples of curios like those he had in his collection according to the 1656 inventory. The show demonstrates the eclecticism of Rembrandt's interests and...
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...te works, contemplation of himself as an individual and as a representative of humanity seems to have played a major part.
Whatever his reasons for producing them, the nearly ninety self-portrayals of Rembrandt that remain today are eloquent testimony to the human spirit, in all its nobility, imperfection, and grandeur.Susan Fegley Osmond is an editor for the Arts section of The World & I.
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