What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.

If you were painting the face of Jesus in Rembrandt’s time — the 17th century — you had three sources to turn to: the Veil of Veronica, the Mandylion of Edessa and the Lentulus Letters.

In fact, Rembrandt often featured himself in his Bible paintings. In The Raising of the Cross , he even kept himself in his modern clothes to emphasize his personal involvement in the crucifixion.

Paul links Bader's passion for paintings of subjects from the Hebrew Bible to his Jewish faith. So she connects Abraham van Dijck's "The Widow of Zarephath and Her Son" (circa 1655), a domestic ...

Beyond using Jewish features to depict Jesus, Rembrandt’s real revolution was painting the divine figure with mortal emotions: the Son of God is sad, sympathetic, stern, even happy. That flies in the ...

If you want to avoid the dog days of summer, just head on over to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and get tickets for the fascinating exhibit, “Rembrandt’s Jesus” It’s cool inside the Art ...

The Netherlands-based Rembrandt Research Project issues a final volume that says 70 paintings, many of them attributed to Rembrandt followers, are by the master.

This portrait by Rembrandt of an otherwise unknown Dutch engraver holds a dubious world record, as the painting most often stolen by art thieves. The Dutch master painted de Gheyn’s portrait in ...