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What Rembrandt Painted When He Painted Jews

JL;DR SUMMARY Menachem Wecker's examination of Rembrandt's 1629 painting, "Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver," explores the artist's unique presentation and its connection to portrayals of Jews in art history. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Art HistoryJewish FiguresJudasRembrandtDutch Golden Age30 Pieces Of SilverNew Testament InterpretationPainting AnalysisMorgan Library Exhibit

Places mentioned

London, England, United Kingdom
"Courtesy of the National Gallery of London"
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"at Washingtons National Gallery by German artist Augustin Hirschvogel"
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
"When Lloyd DeWitt, chief curator at the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia"
Florence, Italy
"At San Marco in Florence, Italy, Fra Angelicos workshop depicted that scene"
Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
"stone work on the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Naumburg, Germany"
Padua, Italy
"an early 14th-century fresco by Giotto at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy"
Paris, Île-de-France, France
"14th-century Franciscan French missal"
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
"Leiden-born Rembrandt hadnt yet moved to Amsterdam"
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"Leiden-born Rembrandt hadnt yet moved to Amsterdam"

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