Old Man with Turban ☶ Rembrandt ☶ Art Print boats geometric perspective

geometric perspective

depicting a meadow with an altar on which the Lamb of God stands

is one of the most famous works outside the United States by an American artist

watched by a little girl and another man

Rousseau is wearing the insignia of the Ordre des Palmes académiques as a buttonhole pin

Old Man with Turban ☶ Rembrandt ☶ Art Print boats geometric perspectiveBust of an Old Man with Turban (1628) by Rembrandt van Rijn depicts an unnamed man in a decorative turban, making it a "tronie" or character study not intended to depict a specific person. Pictures of imaginary Persian or Ottoman princes were popular at the time, in part due to new trade contacts with the Middle East that brought international visitors to Amsterdam. The true identity of the man, a Dutchman who often posed for Rembrandt and other