a master visual artist and certainly the most important in duchess 3 his spanish contemporary diego velazquez was one of the most important painters of the spanish golden age the 2 masters contrast in work is now on show what a landmark exhibition and absa downs rights museum have a series of events marking the 350th anniversary of rembrandt's death. the highlights of rembrandt year 29 seen at the rights museum in amsterdam. were the world is watching the restoration of rembrandt iconic the nightwatch life streamed across the globe. it's a painting that every child in the netherlands know who's and it's here in amsterdam that rembrandt meets another master painting diego velazquez. becoming. can we do it the concept is that we've always put together in a spanish picture so we've always made pairs and then we see what happens when they speak visually to each other and lo and behold are connections between the 2 which and merge because of these parallels on a deeper level moving from the indian. lived in staunchly catholic spain in the service of the king rembrandt lived in the dutch republic w

the netherlands knows but it's here and i'm sadam that rembrandt meets another master painting diego velazquez. alaska's lived in staunchly catholic spain in the service of the king rembrandt lived in the dutch republic where citizens had a say they never crossed paths in their lifetime and all the countries were war with each other the old masters shirts similarities says i've never seen a self-portrait where the eyebrows are raised as high as in this painting by rembrandt he poses a question to the audience and it's certainly directed at us who am i what's the role that i play then when i look to the other side to velasquez he painted a portrait of a very small man for philips who took news from these tiny men with no court jesters on to philip the 9 but he doesn't paint them ridiculously as whole and knows this is a portrait whereas because it takes people as seriously as rembrandt on the sets. painters represent the golden years of the countries in the 17th century the recurrent themes of power love or faith and of course realism are woven through both men's work. exhibition also juxtapose

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