Interpreting Rembrandt

Jameson Rowley
Introduction to Art Museum Practices
Dr. Richard Putney
October 10, 2012
Interpreting Works of Art
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606 – 1669
Man in a Fur – Lined Coat
Oil on Canvas, About 1655 – 60
Funded by: The Clarence Brown Fund, 1977.50
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter who lived during time of Baroque art’s dominance in Europe. He was highly regarded as a giant of the Dutch Golden Age of Painting, and unlike most artists was very successful and popular during his lifetime. In this particular painting Man in a Fur Lined Coat you can see that the man’s elegant attire, stiff pose, and dark background radiate a sense of exuberance, tension, and drama. Those were three distinctive qualities well associated with the Baroque style of art.