Head of Christ
One of Rembrandt's oil studies taken from a Jewish model in Amsterdam — the departure from idealized Renaissance Christs that runs through his later biblical work. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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About Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 · Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker whose biblical works — in oil, panel, and etching — remain among the most psychologically searching treatments of Scripture in Western art.