AMSTERDAM — For the first time, and likely the last, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is showing off most of its works by Rembrandt van Rijn in a single exhibition. “I think the exhibition wonderfully explains who Rembrandt was as a person,” said Pieter Roelofs, the museum’s head of paintings and sculpture. The museum actually owns 1,300 prints, but is showing only the best in the exhibition, “All the Rembrandts,” that opens Friday. It is part of a raft of shows at museums across the Netherlands this year to mark the 350th anniversary of the artist’s death. “But Rembrandt was decisive in the way that we look at today because he was the first artist who depicted the world around him.

Source: National Post February 13, 2019 12:14 UTC