Rembrandt van Rijn and The Jews of Amsterdam (Part 3), presented by Dennis Raverty In-Person
Rembrandt lived in a predominately Jewish neighborhood, numbered many Jewish clients among his portrait commissions and researched Jewish practices of his day to give his biblical subjects greater accuracy. Therefore both Jews and Christians are drawn to his paintings and prints. A deep sense of mystical realism separates his work from the mere naturalism of most of his Dutch contemporaries.
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Dennis Raverty is a speaker, author and art historian who for decades has delighted audiences with lively presentations at libraries, churches, synagogues, hostels and business lunches on a variety of topics in the history of art, from the Italian Renaissance to the Harlem Renaissance. His articles and criticism has appeared in Art Journal, Art in America, The International Review of African American Art, Art Criticism, The New Art Examiner, Prospects: An Annual of American Studies, Source: Notes in the History of Art, and Art Papers, where he was a contributing editor. He authored four entries for the most recent edition of the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, published by Oxford University Press (2011).