Art Of The Day Weekly
#360 - from 16 October 2014 to 22 October 2014
Rembrandt, Titus at his Desk, 1655, oil on canvas, 77x63 cm. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam © Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Foundation / Photo: Studio Tromp, Rotterdam
Rembrandt's swan song
LONDON – This is the victory of the older generation over the trend for all that is young! Following Turner at the Tate Britain (started 10 September), here is Rembrandt at the National Gallery. Not as a young triumphant painter but as an elderly master, ill and alone (in 1660, at the age of 60, he had lost all his wives and children). But he knew how to reinvent himself to produce the most revolutionary painting of his time. More than three centuries later, it continues to be a source of surprise and inspiration through his realistic introspection, his play with lights and matter, his reinterpretation of canonical motifs.
• Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery, from 15 October 2014 to 18 January 2015.