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Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606–69

Works featured in these exhibitions


Abraham Caressing Isaac by Rembrandt van Rijn?slide=0
Wooded Landscape with Abraham and Isaac by Jan Brueghel the Elder ?slide=0
Sacrifice of Isaac, from Commentary on the Pentateuch, part 2 by Joel ben Simeon ?slide=0

The Journey to Moriah

Genesis 22:1–5

The Angel of the Lord Attacks Moses and Zipporah Circumcises their Son to Allay God’s Wrath by School of Rembrandt van Rijn?slide=0
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A Bridegroom of Blood

Exodus 4:19–29

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Samson and Delilah

Judges 16:1–22

Saul and David by Rembrandt van Rijn
David Playing the Harp Before Saul by Lucas van Leyden
David Playing the Harp Before Saul by Mattia Preti

David Plays the Harp for Saul

1 Samuel 16:14–23

Waterfall on the Abana, near Damascus by Francis Frith
A man in Oriental Costume (King Uzziah Stricken by Leprosy) by Rembrandt van Rijn
Seven Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Namaan Being Cleansed in the Jordan

The Healing of Naaman

2 Kings 5

Psalm 92 [93 MT] from Utrecht Psalter by Unknown artist, Reims/Hautvillers
Psalm 93 by Bernard C. Winter
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn

Over Troubled Water

Psalm 93

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Out of the Depths

Psalm 130

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For Everything a Season

Ecclesiastes 3

Captives with camel and baggage on their way into exile, detail of the Assyrian conquest of the Jewish fortified town of Lachish (battle 701 BCE), part of a relief from the palace of Sennacherib at Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq) by Unknown Assyrian artist
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard by Rembrandt van Rijn
Creation of Wartime III by Samuel Bak

A Song of a Vineyard

Isaiah 5

Model of a female, half skeletal, half living by Unknown English artist
Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) by John Gerrard
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem by Rembrandt van Rijn

Raising Standards

Jeremiah 4

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Fire in the Bones

Jeremiah 20

Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt van Rijn
Belshazzar's Feast by John Martin
Belshazzar’s Feast, the Writing on Your Wall by Susan Hiller

The Writing on the Wall

Daniel 5

Tobias and his Miraculous Fish by Jacopo Ligozzi
Persian Calligraphy Shattered Poem #58 by Azita Panahpour
The Archangel Raphael Leaving the Family of Tobit by Rembrandt van Rijn

An Archangel All Along

Tobit 12

The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt van Rijn
The Annunciation by Unknown Byzantine artist
Temptation in the wilderness, flanked by the Esau selling his birthright, and the fall, from Biblia Pauperum by Unknown Netherlandish artist

The Lord’s Prayer

Matthew 6:9–15; Luke 11:1–4

Vinicius Silva de Almeida [Vinicius S.A] by Rembrandt van Rijn
Tears of Saint Peter (Lagrimas de São Pedro) by Vinicius Silva de Almeida [Vinicius S.A]
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Peter’s Denial of Christ

Matthew 26:69–75; Mark 14:66–72; Luke 22:54–62; John 18:15–18, 25–27

The Good Samaritan by Jacopo Bassano
The Good Samaritan, from the Rossana Gospels (Codex Purpureus Rossanensis) by Unknown artist
The Good Samaritan by Rembrandt van Rijn

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25–37


Riemenschneider, Tilman Riley, John

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