Tagged “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus”

An exhibit on Rembrandt, Jews and Jesus

NEW YORK (Tablet) — Like so many other aspects of his life and work, Rembrandt’s connection to the Jews has been sentimentalized, overestimated, misappropriated, criticized, dissected — and debunked. In recent years, the image of the artist as a philo-Semite who painted and socialized with his Jewish neighbors has… Read more »