In this episode Dutch Golden Age Painter, Printmaker and Draughtsman Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known to us simply as Rembrandt, joins Kennardley to talk about his life and works, and his rather unorthodox approach to managing his finances.
Join Kennardley in this entertaining, educational, slightly tongue in cheek but generally factual account of one of history's great artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/rembrandt
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00.00 - Episode Intro
01.02 - The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, bought by the Louvre and Rijksmuseum
02.42 - Rembrandts Birth and family.
03.00 - Rembrandts attitude towards the church and “Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver”.
04.38 - Dropping out of university to paint.
05.10 - Discovery by statesman Constantijn Huygens of the Hague Court.
06.02 - Rembrandt moves to Amsterdam, works as a professional portraitist and meets his wife, Saskia
07.48 - Becoming famous in Amsterdam.
08.59- Caravaggio and Chiaroscuro influences
10.06- Death in the family.
11.15 - “The Night Watch” - The prettiest painting in the world
12.37 - The beginning of money problems and personal entanglements.
13.02 - A new love, trouble with the church, another mouth to feed and the path to bankruptcy.
15.33 - New Commissions but snubbed by the court.
16.19 - A new direction.
17.29 - Rembrandts Death
18.33 - Outro
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