The FBI is on the case, but the paintings remain lost to this day. In a self-portrait of 1661, Rembrandt depicted himself as St. The painter has portrayed himself as visibly aged in this work, which came at the end of a long series of some 70 self-portraits. The fact that Rembrandt represented so many biblical stories, evidently basing them on a strict reading of Old and New Testament texts. Among the stolen treasures were works by Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Johannes Vermeer, and Rembrandt-including Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Rembrandt’s only known seascape. Rembrandt (Harmenszoon) van Rijn summary. In 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers swiped 13 pieces of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Rembrandt, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen in 1990 and is still missing. The Return of the Prodigal Son isn’t Rembrandt’s only painting of the prodigal son. The varnish was removed in the 1940s, but the nickname still stuck. It seems so dark for two reasons one, because Rembrandt used chiaroscuro, a method of contrasting lightness and darkness to create shadows and depth and two, because the painting was covered in a layer of varnish that made it seem even darker than it was. However, the scene actually occurs in the morning, as the soldiers prepare to defend the city. Because of its rather verbose title ( Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq) and the fact it appears to take place during the night, it became widely known as The Night Watch by the 18th century. In 1642, Rembrandt’s largest (nearly 12 feet by 14 feet) and most famous painting was unveiled in the Kloveniersdoelen, the headquarters of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and his civic militia-the commissioners and subjects of the artwork. Rembrandt, Dennis Jarvis, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 A trap door was installed underneath Rembrandt's The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum to save it in case of fire.
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