Picture Study is simple. Look at the picture with your children for a few minutes, and then talk about what you saw. Try to remember as much about the piece as you can. Enjoy the beauty of it. Art is not a chore; it’s a pleasure. We’ve chosen some works by Rembrandt van Rijn for this month.
Art:
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Resources:
Video:
On Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Books
- What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt? by Richard Muhlberger
- The Artist and his Models: The Art of Rembrandt by Hangul Ddang
- Rembrandt and the Boy Who Drew Dogs by Molly Blaisdell
- Rembrandt: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists by Mike Venezia
- Rembrandt Is In the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey
- Living Biographies of the Great Painters by Henry Thomas (source text for biography; pages 105-112) Read online here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124855/
Photo of Artist: By Rembrandt – https://www.rct.uk/collection/404120/self-portrait-in-a-flat-cap, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37522119