Rembrandt lived in the jewish quarter in amsterdam on the breestraat from 1633 to 1635 and from 1639 to 1658. Theres supposedly even a mezuzah nailed to one of the door posts.
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It is true that rembrandt often painted the faces he saw around him and i believe that as an artist he was fascinated by the exotic appearances of his jewish neighbors as contrasted with the plain dutch faces that he observed everywhere else.
Rembrandts Jews Free Epub. 1665 1669. Het joodse bruidje is a painting by rembrandt painted c. But there are rumors that he was possibly a convert possibly a hidden kaballist.
Theres his masterpiece the jewish bride. From rembrandts self portrait with beret 1655. It has been suggested that his choice of a home in amsterdams breestraat was motivated by its proximity to the citys growing jewish community.
Moreover these tablets follow the division of five commandments on each tablet traditionally used by jews but in rembrandts time christians generally placed four on the first tablet and. The myth that rembrandt had close links with jews or could indeed have been a jewish convert can be dated back to the 19th century according to van voolen. Rembrandt harmenszoon van rijn was a dutch draughtsman painter and printmaker.
Rembrandts jews is a carefully researched history of the influences on the dutch painter as he made his home in the jewish quarter of amsterdam. Jews had been forbidden in all the low countries by the mid sixteenth century by proclamation of its lord and owner holy roman emperor charles v. An increasing number of jews came to.
And rembrandts house in amsterdam stands on jodenbreestraat or jewish broad street. An innovative and prolific master in three media he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in dutch art history. The jewish bride dutch.
There are supposedly many jewish themes in his work. Some of the residents of vlooienburg circa 1600 had the mediterranean complexionsso strikingly different from the pale blond dutchof the sephardim. The painting gained its current name in the early 19th century when an amsterdam art collector identified the subject as that of a jewish father bestowing a necklace upon his daughter on her wedding day.
Unlike most dutch masters of the 17th century rembrandts works depict a wide range of style and subject matter from portraits and self portraits to landscapes genre scenes allegorical and historical scenes biblical and mythological the. In rembrandts jews steven nadler reminds us that in much medieval and renaissance art the jew is not merely morally degenerate but of a sinisterly different nature altogether with bulging heavy lidded eyes hooked nose dark skin large open mouth and thick fleshy lips jews are made to look more like cartoon characters than natural human beings. If judaisms 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.
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