Having already suffered the early loss of his wife and three of their children, Rembrandt’s later years were burdened with bankruptcy, acrimonious legal proceedings with a former lover, and the loss of his common-law wife and only remaining son.
Having already suffered the early loss of his wife and three of their children, Rembrandt’s later years were burdened with bankruptcy, acrimonious legal proceedings with a former lover, and the loss of his common-law wife and only remaining son.
7 October 2015 – 10 January 2016.
The painting is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a ‘head’ that was not meant to be a portrait.
Visions of Paradise: Botticini’s Palmieri Altarpiece
Francesco Botticini’s Assumption of the Virgin has bewildered scholars for centuries.