The Painted Word

There’s a new movie coming out that supposedly details murder as the hidden meaning behind Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”. The movie recounts Rembrandt’s uncovering of a murder conducted by the militia-men pictured in the painting. He later was commissioned to paint a portrait of these men. There are supposed clues hidden […]

“Looking at these “Rembrandt” prints a few years later, Picasso dryly commented to his mistress Françoise Gilot that “every painter takes himself for Rembrandt.” He was right. No artist in the Western canon, not Raphael, not Michelangelo, not even Goya, has been so compulsively co-opted as heroic alter ego as Rembrandt. Painters like Turner, Delacroix, […]