Rembrandt (2)

Today a few more of the Rembrandt portrait exhibition I showed you ""here" last Saturday.

This one "Selfportaits at a young age" made me smile. Jildou de Jager is the artist.

This one is from a real talented painter "Remy Diephuis".

And this one I liked very much too, so many talented people making all this at home.

Long Live Rembrandt

More than 8000 people in 95 countries responded to an open call of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to submit self-made artworks inspired by Rembrandt. An expert panel of  judges selected 575 works made by a total of 693 people for inclusion in the Long Live Rembrandt exhibition. The themes of the exhibition emerged from similarities between works made by the many different artistst. The themes include the "Night Watch", "Portraits in the style of Rembrandt and Rembrandt the storyteller.

The result is overwhelming

Some are so funny!

The Nightwatch  as a tapestry.

And the modern way. Watch their website with a little movie "here"

Rembrandt

A selfportrait of the world famous painter Rembrandt in the City archive in Amsterdam. He was an inhabitant of Amsterdam and the city archive has many documents about his life which are exhibited now. With the newest techniques as augmented reality (AR) the original documents are made accessible with image and sound and digital illustrated with artpieces from over the world.

Maybe I am to old for the modern way, it makes me very nervous to handle all those attributes with I-pads and headphones. in a public room. I liked to watch the precious original old handwritten documents from the 17th century in thick books and admired the people who worked with pen and ink all day long to give us after all those centuries an inside view of someones life as his mariages, his loss of his wife Saskia, his depts and alligations of dishonorable behaviour when painting a woman with bare shoulders!

Taphophile Tragics # 5

The "Old Church" is  the oldest church in Amsterdam and dates from 1300. It is no longer in use as a church but as an exhibition place. The floor is covered with very old grave-stones and many of them are beautiful decorated but a bit declined because of the many footsteps in all the past years. I will show you the grave stones later but will now focus on one special grave.

I have described the church before here

One of the best known people who is buried here is Saskia van Uylenburgh born in 1612 and died in 1642. She was born as the daughter of a Frisian mayor. She did not marry an academic, but became the wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn, who was the son of a wealthy miller from Leiden. In the course of her life she was his model for some of his paintings, drawings and etchings.

Saskia was orphaned by age 12 and raised by her sister Hiskje and her husband and later by another sister Antje who died young. In 1634 she married Rembrandt and moved to Amsterdam. Rembrandt gained financial success through his artwork and bought a house in the Jodenbreestreet which is a museum now, the Rembrandthouse

Selfportrait of Rembrandt

Three of their children died shortly after birth and were buried in the nearby Zuiderchurch. The sole survivor was Titus, who was named after his mother's sister Titia. Saskia died the year after he was born, aged 29 in 1642,  probably from tuberculosis and was buried in the "Oude Kerk" (Old Church).

This a my tribute to Taphophile Tragics