Rembrandt van Rijn1648

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.

Head of Christ
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), biblical paintings and etchings.Source

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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.