The Night Watch: Rembrandt, Group Portraiture, and Dutch History 
The Night Watch: Rembrandt, Group Portraiture, and Dutch History by Yale
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Date Added: March 14, 2015

Lecture Description

Rembrandt van Rijn’s painting The Night Watch is the centerpiece and climax of the recent reinstallation at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and for good reason: it shows Rembrandt at his most inventive, ambitious, and idealistic. The painting gives heartfelt life and power to a traditional formula for portraiture. To reach a deeper understanding of the work, Walsh looks at it in the context of what the artist’s clients might have expected

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Course Description

In January and February 2015, John Walsh offered a series of six lectures that explores the Golden Age of Dutch art.

John Walsh, B.A. 1961, is Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and a specialist in Dutch paintings. He was a paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught history of art courses at Columbia and Harvard and currently teaches at Yale.

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