In the alluring art-world documentary “My Rembrandt,” someone describes the experience of being in sudden, direct proximity to a Rembrandt portrait of a standing figure. He says that it was spooky, ...

Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn prior to the artist’s death in 1669. Historian Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn in the years leading up to the ...

As a young painter in Leiden, Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn signed his canvases with a monogram, but once he hit his stride in Amsterdam he began signing his work as we know ...

On January 3, 1638, the Schouwburg on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht canal opened its doors. Modeled after the Teatro Olimpico in the Italian city of Vicenza, the first public theater in the Dutch Republic ...