Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally conside ...

in one of the best expertly researched (visual) artists in history. His life and work have long attracted the attention of multidisciplinary scholarship. The field of Rembrandt studies (i.e. study of Rembrandt's life and work) — as an academic field in its own right with many noted

Rembrandt scholars Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally conside ...

— has been very dynamic and well published since the Dutch Golden Age. The following is a list of notable Rembrandt experts (e.g. connoisseurs and scholars). *

Filippo Baldinucci Filippo Baldinucci (3 June 1625 – 10 January 1696) was an Italian art historian and biographer. Life Baldinucci is considered among the most significant Florentine biographers/historians of the artists and the arts of the Baroque period ...

* Adam Bartsch *

Kurt Bauch Kurt Bauch (25 November 1897 in Neustadt-Glewe – 1 March 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German art historian with particular interest in the art of Rembrandt. The son of a Mecklenburg judge, Bauch studied art history at the University o ...

Otto Benesch Otto Benesch (29 June 1896 in Ebenfurth – 16 November 1964 in Vienna) was an Austrian art historian. He was taught by Max Dvořák and is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History. He is well known for his catalogue of Rembran ...

* Harry Berger, Jr. * Holm Bevers * Jan Białostocki * Michael Bockemühl *

Wilhelm von Bode Wilhelm von Bode (10 December 1845 – 1 March 1929) was a German art historian and museum curator. Born Arnold Wilhelm Bode in Calvörde, he was ennobled in 1913. He was the creator and first curator of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, now calle ...

Pascal Bonafoux Pascal Bonafoux (born 1949) is a French writer, novelist, art critic and art historian, a specialist in self-portraiture. He collaborates with various newspapers and magazines, he is the author of numerous essays dedicated to art and was a res ...

* Abraham Bredius * B.P.J. Broos * Josua Bruyn * Margaret D. Carroll *

H. Perry Chapman H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. H may also refer to: Musical symbols * H number, Harry Halbreich reference mechanism for music by Honegger and Martinů * H, B (musical note) * H, B major People * H. (noble) (died after 12 ...

* Kenneth Clark * Paul Crenshaw * Marieke de Winkel * Stephanie S. Dickey *

Eugène Dutuit Eugène Dutuit (7 April 1807 – 25 June 1886) was a French politician and art collector who also wrote several works on art history. Dutuit was born in Marseille as the son of a cotton merchant, but grew up in Rouen, where he studied law and li ...

Edme-François Gersaint Edmé-François Gersaint (1694–1750) was a Parisian ''marchand-mercier'' (merchant) who specialised in the sale of works of art and luxury goods and who is noted for revolutionising the art market by preparing, for the first time, detailed cata ...

Zhenya Gershman Zhenya Gershman is a U.S. painter and portraitist. She is known for her "dramatic monumental portraits of iconic public and private figures" and interest in art history. Early life Her grandfather Mikhail Matusovsky was an award-winning Ukraini ...

Horst Gerson Horst Gerson (2 March 1907 – 10 June 1978) was a German-Dutch art historian. Biography Gerson was born in Berlin on 2 March 1907, and after studying art history in Vienna, he became a pupil and assistant of Cornelis Hofstede de Groot and worke ...

* Amy Golahny *

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator. Life He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned German ...

* Bob Haak *

Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann OON (6 March 1923 – 5 August 2017) was a Dutch American art historian and professor. Career Born in Naarden, Haverkamp-Begemann spent most of his childhood in Kemerovo and Moscow in Russia, where his father worked a ...

Julius S. Held Julius Samuel Held (1905–2002) was an art historian, collector, and expert on Dutch painters Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Rembrandt. He published several monographs and was a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbi ...

Arthur Mayger Hind Arthur Mayger Hind (1880–1957) was a British art historian and curator, who usually published as Arthur M. Hind or A. M. Hind. He specialized in old master prints, and was Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Mus ...

* Erik Hinterding *

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

* Constantijn Huygens * Thomas Kaplan *

Nigel Konstam Nigel Konstam (8 December 1932 – 19 July 2022) was a British sculptor and art historian who has researched the history of art and lectured internationally on art historical subjects. He specialised in exploring the development of Man's ability ...

* Gerard de Lairesse *

Arthur Pillans Laurie Prof Arthur Pillans Laurie FRSE LLD (1861 – 1949) was a Scottish chemist who pioneered the scientific analysis of paintings, especially by Rembrandt. He also was a fascist symapthiser who opposed the Second World War. Early life Laurie wa ...

* Frits Lugt * François Émile Michel * Jakob Rosenberg * Albert Rothenberg * Martin Royalton-Kisch * Joachim von Sandrart * Catherine B. Scallen * Simon Schama * Peter Schatborn * James A. Schirillo *

Gary Schwartz Gary E. Schwartz is an American psychologist, author, parapsychologist and professor at the University of Arizona and the director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. Schwartz researches the veracity of mediums and energy ...

Woldemar von Seidlitz Woldemar von Seidlitz (1 June 1850, in St Petersburg – 12 January 1922, in Dresden) was a Russian-born German art historian. He studied economics at the universities of Dorpat and Heidelberg, followed by studies of art history at Leipzig a ...

Larry Silver Larry Silver (born 1934) is an American photographer. He was born in the Bronx. While a student at the High School of Industrial Art in Manhattan he met members of the Photo League, among them Lou Bernstein, W. Eugene Smith and Weegee. He won a ...

Seymour Slive Seymour Slive (September 15, 1920 – June 14, 2014) was an American art historian, who served as director of the Harvard Art Museums from 1975 to 1984. Slive was a scholar of Dutch art, specifically of the artists Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Ja ...

* Eric Jan Sluijter *

Werner Sumowski Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Rai ...

Christian Tümpel Christian Tümpel (1937–2009) was a German art historian active in the Netherlands. Tümpel was born in Bielefeld. He first studied theology and philosophy before continuing his education at Heidelberg in art history and archeology, receiving h ...

Wilhelm Valentiner William Reinhold Valentiner (May 2, 1880 – September 6, 1958) was a German-American art historian, art critic and museum administrator. He was educated and trained in Europe, first working at the Mauritshuis in The Hague and at museums in Berli ...

* Gregor J. M. Weber *

Ernst van de Wetering Ernst van de Wetering (9 March 1938 – 11 August 2021) was a Dutch art historian and an expert on Rembrandt and his work. Background Ernst van de Wetering was born in Hengelo. He was first trained as an artist at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts ...

Samuel van Hoogstraten Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (2 August 1627, in Dordrecht – 19 October 1678, in Dordrecht) was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age, who was also a poet and author on art theory. Biography Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten trained first with his fat ...

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Arthur Kingsland Wheelock Jr. (born May 13, 1943, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Uxbridge) is an American art historian, who served as Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. until retiring in 2018. W ...

* Christopher White * Michael Zell *Zell, Michael: ''Protestant Imagery and Jewish Apologetics: Rembrandt's Encounterwith Rabbi

Menasseh ben Israel Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (), also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writ ...

''. (Ph.D. diss.,

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, 1994) *Zell, Michael: ''Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam''. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002) *Zell, Michael; Chong, Alan (eds.): ''Rethinking Rembrandt''. (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2002) *Zell, Michael (2000), 'Encountering Difference: Rembrandt's Presentation in the Dark Manner,'. ''Art History'' 23(4): 496–521 *Zell, Michael (2003), 'A Leisurely and Virtuous Pursuit: Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representationin Seventeenth-Century Holland,'. ''Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek'' 54: 337–373 *Zell, Michael (2008), 'Eduard Kolloff and the Historiographic Romance of Rembrandt and the Jews,'. ''Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art'' 28: 181–97 *Zell, Michael (2011), 'Rembrandt's Gifts: A Case Study of Actor-Network-Theory,'. ''JHNA: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art'' 3(2).

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Rembrandt Database

Rembrandt Research Project
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