. >> brown: jonathan bikker is curator of research here, and author of the new book "rembrandt: biographya rebel." io>> a number of them mentd that he broke the rules of our art. >> brown: which meant what? >> a variety of things.f somee things they accused him of doing we wouldn't think of as radical at all. for example, painting old wrinkled women, for example what you wpposed to do was to select the best, the most beautiful things in nature, and improve upon that. rembrandt didn't do that.ra for ret, this was the ideal playing field for light and dark. >> bwn: for bikker, the culmination of rembrandt's achievement is the painting " known e jewish bride," a portrait of two lovers cast asen the old tests isaac and rebekah. >> this is the greatest painted ode to love that was ever made. >> brown: the greatest? >> the greatest. >> brown: it also shows rembrandt's technique. here, the use of thick layers of richly colored paint. >> it's modeled like clay. the high point of that technique is figuratively and literally in the sleeve oisaac. that is the thickest passage of paint in any 17th ce

. >> brown: for jonathan bikker, it's that ability that keeps rembrandt relevant and beloved, 3.5 centurieser his death. >> we still ve emotions in the 21st century. it's what defines us, basically, as human beings. so when we look at rembrandt's paintings, but also his etchings and his drawings, we actuallyri exce our own humanity. >> brown: the exhibition "all the rembrandts" runs through june 10. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown at the rijtemuseum in amsam. >> woodruff: finallyadonight, someews. last month, we reported on ariellstein, an 11-year-old girl featured in our story on "hope fohenry," a program that helps hospitals support seriously ill children. ariella lost her battle with cancer yesterday. pru can see our original story about her and thram on our website. our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends and her caregivers. and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. have a great weekend. thank you, and good night. >> major funding forbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >>inevin! >> kev >> aice for life. life well-planned. learn more at raymon