Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn prior to the artist’s death in 1669. Historian Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn in the years leading up to ...

“Rembrandt’s Eyes,” by Simon Schama. Alfred A. Knopf. 640 pages. $50. The problem with Rembrandt has always been that precious little is known for sure about the artist’s life. This has ...

REMBRANDT’S EYES. Simon Schama. Knopf. $50. 750 pp. Simon Schama’s sumptuous new book on Rembrandt bears about as much resemblance to traditional biographies of the painter as Tristram Shandy ...

Rembrandt participated in this consumer paradise as artist, art dealer and collector of exotic artifacts that often lend picturesque credibility to his biblical subjects. As Schama notes, the dagger ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In "The Night Watch" and his portraits of the richest merchants of Amsterdam, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn did the impossible: make something heroic, dramatic and grand out of a world of ...

Yet another commemoration and yet another mega-show at the Rijksmuseum. Is it possible to have too much Rembrandt? Can you have too much love, wisdom, fine weather? No, you can’t. His was the ...

Here, he extends his metier to that of art critic.[1] “Rembrandt,” Schama tells us, “was one of nature’s ecumenicals. His mother’s family had been Catholic; his father’s desultorily ...

Simon Schama is a prolific historian who has chronicled subjects, including the French Revolution, Rembrandt and America’s place in the world. Schama joins Washington Post senior writer Frances ...

Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...