Nearly 500 Etchings through Rembrandt Now Unfastened On-line, Courtesy of the Morgan Library & Museum

Seventeenth-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn could have extra title recognition than close toly any other European artist, his popularity due largely to what artwork historian Alison McQueen identifies in her e book of the similar title as “the upward thrust of the cult of Rembrandt.” Popular Rembrandt veneration introduced us within the twentieth century such corpoprice appropriations of the painter’s legacy as Rembrandt teethpaste and money market company Rembrandt Finances (particularly ironic, “given the notoriety of Rembrandt’s financial institutionruptcy in 1656”). “In contemporary popular culture,” writes McQueen, “Rembrandt’s title has such resonance that the pinnacleline of an article within the New York Instances Magazineazine in 1995 referred to the stylish barber Franky Avilos angeles as ‘the Rembrandt of Barbers.’”

Through invoking Rembrandt’s title, the creator knew his learners would underneathstand that this connection signifies that Avila’s ability with a razor equals that of Rembrandt’s together with his paintbrush or etching needle… despite the fact that a learner has never actually observed any paintings through Rembrandt.

Certainly, although any according toson in the street will likely know the artist’s title, maximum can be hard-pressed to call any of his paintings, excluding according tohaps his well known self-porcharacteristics, that have decorated t‑shirts, posters, and iPhone cases. I may now not have identified a lot more about Rembrandt than the ones self-porcharacteristics both had I now not lived in Washington, DC, the place I had loose get entry to to a lot of his paintings on the Countryal Gallery of Artwork. The Dutch master was once astonishingly professionallific, painting, drawing, and etching hundreds of porcharacteristics of himself and his buyers, in addition to hundreds of nonetheless lifes, landscapes, scenes from mythology, and lots of, many Biblical subjects.

Nowadays, you’ll be able to see Rembrandt’s paintings at no cost on-line, whether or not from the Countryal Gallery of Artwork’s collection, that of the Countryal Gallery in London, or of the Dutch Rijksmuseum. And for another aspect of his genius, you’ll be able to now cross to the website online of New York’s Morgan Library and Museum, who’ve digitized “virtually 500 photographs from the Morgan’s exceptional collection of Rembrandt etchings,” celebrating his “unsurhanded ability and inventiveness as a master storyteller.” There are, in fact, plenty of self-porcharacteristics, just like the 1630 “Self Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed” on the most sensible of the publish, and there are porcharacteristics of others, like that of the artist’s mother, above, from 1633. There are religious scenes just like the 1655 “Abraham’s Sacrifice” underneath, and landscapes like “The 3 Timber,” further down, from 1643.

Those are the 4 primary categories that the Morgan makes use of to organize this impressive collection, however you’ll additionally to find there extra humble, domestic subjects, just like the 1640 “Sleeping Domestic dogpy,” underneath. Writes Hyperallergic, “The Morgan holds in its collection many of the toughly 300 identified etchings through Rembrandt, including uncommon, multiple versions (therefore the discrepancy in number of etchings versus number of pictures.)” Like his toply accomplished paintings, Rembrandt’s etchings “are well-known for his or her dramatic intensity, penetrating psychology, and contacting humanity,” in addition to, in fact, for the additionalordinary ability with which the artist made those artistic endeavors. Due to the “cult of Rembrandt,” everyone knows the artist’s title and reputation; now, due to digital collections from Countryal Galleries, the Rijksmuseum, and now the Morgan, we will change into mavens in his paintings as smartly. Input the Morgan collection of caricaturees right here.