Next year is the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth on July 15, 1606. Because Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is revered as Holland's greatest and most prolific baroque artist, Dutch museums are already starting to celebrate. Rembrandt is credited with
Mark Harden's Artchive exhibits "seven of the master's greatest works in a virtual gallery setting.
I didn't find the virtual room-by-room museum tour very compelling, but fortunately I checked out the Rembrandt section before I left, because it's a winner.
In 1968, a team of art historians undertook to catalog and analyze Rembrandt's entire body of work.
Explore Rembrandt's life with a hotlinked biography (turn the pages by following the next/previous links in the bottom right corner) and then discover his artwork by mousing over the thumbnails in the upper left.
The Web Gallery of Art is a searchable virtual museum of gothic, renaissance and baroque artwork.
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