Artists

Rembrandt

Also Known As Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Citation Formats

General Reference

Arts and Music Atlas. "Rembrandt." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-arts.interactiveatlas.org/artists/rembrandt.

APA Style

Arts and Music Atlas. (n.d.). Rembrandt. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-arts.interactiveatlas.org/artists/rembrandt

BibTeX

@misc{artsandmusicatlas-rembrandt,
  author = {Arts and Music Atlas},
  title = {Rembrandt},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-arts.interactiveatlas.org/artists/rembrandt},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the seventeenth century, celebrated for his psychologically penetrating portraits, his mastery of light and shadow, and an unflinching series of self-portraits painted across his entire working life. Trained in Leiden and active for most of his career in Amsterdam, he worked at the height of the Dutch Golden Age, producing altarpieces, biblical and mythological scenes, and portraits of the Amsterdam merchant class alongside etchings that remain foundational to the print medium.

Facts

Birth Year

1606 1

Death Year

1669 1

Nationality

Dutch 1

Birth Date

1606-07-15 2

Death Date

1669-10-04 2

Birthplace

Leiden, Dutch Republic 2

Death Place

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic 2

Active From Year

1625 2

Dated from his earliest independent paintings in Leiden to his death.

Active To Year

1669 2

Training

Trained first under Jacob van Swanenburgh in Leiden, then under Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. 2

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Movement

Baroque

Why this is disputed. Rembrandt is widely grouped with Baroque painting for his dramatic use of light and shadow, though some historians treat Dutch Golden Age painting as its own current, distinct from the Catholic Counter-Reformation context most closely associated with the term Baroque.

Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)