Rembrandthaus
by dag on Mar.14, 2009, under Uncategorized
Well, I’ve been slacking a bit on posting things to the blog. Really there haven’t been all that many exciting experiences to report, though I’ve been having a great time here in Amsterdam. Anyway, here’s the Rembrandt Museum, which I visited last week. It’s set in and around Rembrandt’s actual house, including all the rooms where he used to work. Above is a shot of the room where he made all his prints. I was lucky enough to catch a demonstration of the process. The demonstrator showed us by making a print using a replica of one of Rembrandt’s original plates.
Here is a shot of his painting studio.
It was too dark to get good shots of the many paintings hiding in here. There were also three floors of beautiful prints – I’d never realized before that Rembrandt was known in his time for his prints, and not his paintings. Having seen the incredible use of light and crosshatchwork I can see why.
I wish I could’ve found some of the more striking examples – the ones below are nice but not the best I saw at the museum. Should’ve noted the names of the prints I guess.
March 14th, 2009 on 6:39 pm
Looks like he used to sketch people on the subway, too. And it doesn’t look like people were any more enthusiastic about riding the subway back then. 😉
March 15th, 2009 on 7:55 pm
hehehe… yeah. Looks like maybe they were slightly more apt to sit still in his time though. I couldn’t get that much detail in a subway sketch unless the person was cold passed out in the seat. Which a couple of these people look like they might’ve been.
March 16th, 2009 on 12:38 pm
I hear those 17th century Dutch subways were really damp!