Last week, the Rembrandt House Museum reopened in Amsterdam after a four-month closure, offering 30 percent more Rembrandt van Rijn in the building where the artist lived and worked—plus a forthcoming ...

The Dutch artists of Rembrandt's day gained respect painting landscapes, still lifes, and scenes glorifying ordinary life. But these subjects never held much interest for Rembrandt, who was captivated ...

It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's landmark Rijksmuseum, ...

The clever son of a prosperous miller from the provincial Dutch town of Leyden started to turn the art world upside down as soon as he arrived in Amsterdam in 1631. It's arguable that he started even ...

Rembrandt is so high in the ranking of great artists that our amassed reverence has sunk like syrup into the brown and gold surfaces of his paintings. There he is in the first room of this startling ...

A rediscovered Rembrandt painting sold at auction on December 6 for nearly $14 million, a significant jump in value from just two years ago. The rediscovered Rembrandt, titled The Adoration of The ...

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When the small painting with a slightly damaged surface and cracks in its wood backing materialized in September at an auction house in New Jersey, no one expected great things. First and foremost was ...

Rembrandt may be famous for his dramatic oils, but his little-known etchings, above, are what paid the freight during his lifetime. Until June 18, Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art ...

Self-Portrait, Half-Length, Wearing a Ruff and Black Hat, 1632, by Rembrandt. Sotheby's A small self-portrait painted in 1632 by Rembrandt is the centerpiece of Sotheby’s live evening auction in ...