Thursday, April 30, 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009  [Link to this | Blog home]

Visited Rembrandt's house - now a museum. Surprisingly, in a city full of 17th century houses, this was one of our only encounters with the interior of one of these in its original state. And a fine display of Rembrandt's engravings, explaining his elegant and relentlessly experimenting technique. I was reminded again of the old artist quip that "nothing new has happened in the visual arts since Rembrandt" (they're forgetting Duchamp of course, but I see what they mean...).