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Who was Rembrandt?” Thanks for WONDERing with us, Julia!
If you’ve been WONDERing with us for a while, you may have read about several famous artists. Maybe you know all about Frida Kahlo, Maya Angelou, or Leonardo da Vinci. Today’s Wonder of the day is about another name you might recognize Rembrandt!
Who was Rembrandt? This famous artist was born in the Netherlands in 1606. His full name was Rembrandt van Rijn, but today, we remember him by his first name.
As a kid, Rembrandt attended the Latin School in his hometown of Leiden. Later, he started at the University of Leiden at the age of 14. However, his desire to create art eventually led him down a different path. Rembrandt left the university to learn to paint. He first studied with Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburgh in Leiden and later with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam.
While cat burglary seems a faintly elegant relic of another time, one new opening by Broadgate Circus is offering Londoners a chance to get stealthy – and pull off an art heist for one of the most valuable paintings of all time. The Perfect Crime, which launches on June 24 at Theatre Deli on Finsbury Avenue, is a new immersive escape room experience combining theatre and puzzle solving, which puts players in the midst of a break-in. The setting.
The Perfect Crime: Channel Netflix story of ‘world’s biggest art heist’ in new immersive show David Ellis
While cat burglary seems a faintly elegant relic of another time, one new opening by Broadgate Circus is offering Londoners a chance to get stealthy – and pull off an art heist for one of the most valuable paintings of all time.
The Perfect Crime, which launches on June 24 at Theatre Deli on Finsbury Avenue, is a new immersive escape room experience combining theatre and puzzle solving, which puts players in the midst of a break-in.
The setting for the interactive show will be familiar to fans of the Netflix docuseries “This Is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist”, which tells the story of two men who posed as policemen to steal 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, including Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. It is still missing.
“Looking and Seeing” Exhibit Opens at Boston Children’s Museum
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“Looking and Seeing” Opens at Boston Children’s Museum
Are we really seeing the simple elements that make up our world, or are they colored by imagination, or both? Woomin’s work asks us to ponder the question: When you look at something, are you really seeing it? BOSTON (PRWEB) May 04, 2021 Boston Children’s Museum has recently opened the “Looking and Seeing” art installation by Woomin Kim. Looking and Seeing is an exhibition of sculptures and embroideries that uses and explores minerals and everyday objects in unexpected ways.
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Judith and Holofernes by Caravaggio. The work was discovered in an attic in Toulouse. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images.
Aficionados of
Antiques Roadshow know that treasure sometimes hides in plain sight (if it isn’t a hoax or dud). And in operatic fashion, masterpieces often surface in prosaic domestic settings: attics, cellars, and garages.
It’s precisely the romantic, slovenly nature ideally blocked by cobwebs of these spaces that draws us to discoveries therein. There’s something about the rags-to-riches unlikeliness of it all, such as turning $721,765 in profit on a Chinese bowl purchased for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale.