Rembrandt, Belshazzar’s Feast, 1636 X 1638

London, National Gallery, NG6350

This image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar%27s_Feast_(Rembrandt)#/media/File:Rembrandt-Belsazar.jpg

All artists belong to their time. It can’t be helped; it’s just a fact. Rembrandt is no exception. The painting effects he employed, the commissions he accepted, the themes which obsessed him - all mark him indelibly as a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. There were hundreds of them! So why is he different? And, let us be in no doubt: he is different. There are just a few artists - a very few - in any genre, for whom the old cliché “timeless” is truly correct. Rembrandt is one of them.

Let’s knock ourselves out trying to figure out why.

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