Rembrandt's First Masterpiece lavishly adorned with select treasures

lavishly adorned with select treasures from his distinguished holdings of paintings

and even the choice of text

and secular scenes

the pies and puddings enjoyed by the pilgrims in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

the art historian Mary L

Rembrandt's First Masterpiece lavishly adorned with select treasuresA focused look into Rembrandts first masterpiece, featuring essays chronicling the paintings early history and the evolution of the artists narrative style. Rembrandts (16061669) Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver (1629), which scholars have long recognized as his first mature work, demonstrates many of the characteristics that would come to define the artists style: dramatic lighting, a rhythmic harmony of composition, and an exceptional