June 3, 2011- Today I went to the Rembrandthuis Museum in Amsterdam. This museum was really interesting and showed the house that the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt lived in. In the house there was many paintings done by Rembrandt throughout his life. His painting studio was pretty neat and showed the tools that Rembrandt used when creating his paintings.
Rembrandt also created etchings which are small detailed oriented drawings. These etchings could be easily reproduced through a process where a metal base had a drawing imprinted on it which was filled with ink and paper was run over top which created a new drawing. Rembrandt also had a collection of paintings from Lucas Van Leyden which were normally very small paintings with great detail. A picture named “David’s Prayer” is shown below from Lucas Van Leyden.
This painted was about 4.5”x3”. Also in Rembrandt’s house was a room with sculptures and animals hanging from the ceiling which were probably used as props for paintings.
This museum was very interesting and had a lot of information about Rembrandt and his life.
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