✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Visual Arts

Rembrandt's Light, Dulwich Picture Gallery

04 Oct 19 – 02 Feb 20, 10am - 5pm, Tuesday - Sunday

Dulwich Picture Gallery is to present 35 of Rembrandt's paintings in an exhibition exploring his inimitable rendering of light

By CW Contributor on 4/10/2019

23 CW readers are interested
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self Portrait, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self Portrait, Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018
Rembrandt's Light, Dulwich Picture Gallery Rembrandt's Light, Dulwich Picture Gallery Emily Spicer
Rembrandt (1606–69) used light like no other artist. He was an alchemist, able to transform paint into glowing flesh. Early in his career, his portraits were smooth, taught affairs. Skin was highly finished with a polished application of paint but, as he aged, the prolific self-portraitist loosened his technique in sympathy with his own sagging cheeks and roughening features, and so the light he painted became scattered across furrowed brows and pooled in the watery eyes of his sitters.


An exhibition opening at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in October focuses on Rembrandt’s unparalleled mastery, beaming in on the years 1639-1658, widely considered to be his most innovative. At this time he was living in his dream house at Breestraat, in the heart of Amsterdam, now the Museum Het Rembrandthuis and the cold northern light that streamed in through the windows provided the illumination for some of his most recognisable works.


35 paintings will be brought together for this exhibition, which aims to tell the story of the Dutch master’s revolutionary handling of atmosphere, including works that have never been displayed before in the UK. One such painting is Philemon and Baucis (1658), usually housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in which the elderly couple of Ovid’s Metamorphoses discover that they are hosting Jupiter and Mercury in their home. The glow of an unseen candle illuminates the cosy scene, so rich in shimmering, warm tones, it might have been rendered with liquid gold. Jupiter's tunic sparkles, drawing the eye to his Christ-like aura of benevolence as he insists the couple spare their best goose from sacrifice.


This exhibition promises to be a treat. It is 350 years since Rembrandt’s death, but his paintings remain relevant and innovative. No one before or since has quite captured tenderness and drama in the way that he did and with such stubborn individuality. He often flew in the face of convention and fashion, labouring to create art that served to push forward the possibilities of paint and the rendering of light. Nothing concerning Rembrandt will disappoint.


What Rembrandt's Light, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Where Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD | MAP
Nearest tube Brixton (underground)
When 04 Oct 19 – 02 Feb 20, 10am - 5pm, Tuesday - Sunday
Price £tbc
Website Click here for more information



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend: 3–5 February
Things to do in London this weekend: 3–5 February
Zadie Smith new novel, The Fraud, to be released in 2023, photo Justin Holler
An A to Z of trends for 2023
Helena Bonham Carter in Nolly, ITVX (Photo: ITV)
What to watch on TV this week

Editor's Picks

AI: More Than Human, Barbican Centre. Future You (concept), 2018 by Universal Everything Image courtesy of Universal Everything
Artificial intelligence in art
Venice Biennale 2019
Venice Biennale 2019
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: A Different View. Lybian Sybil
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: A Different View, Winchester Discovery Centre
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
23

You might like

  • Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: A Different View. Lybian Sybil

    Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: A Different View, Winchester Discovery Centre

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Handel & Hendrix in London, Mayfair

  • Lost Horizon I, 2008 (detail). Cast iron, each element 189 x 53 x 29 cm. Installation view, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, England. Courtesy of the Artist and PinchukArtCentre (Kiev, Ukraine) © the Artist.

    Antony Gormley exhibition, Royal Academy ★★★★★

  • Photograph of William Marriot in Pearson’s Magazine Credit: Image from the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, Senate House Library, University of London

    Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic, Wellcome Collection review ★★★★★

  • On Sleeping and Drowning. © Esther Teichmann, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

    Esther Teichmann: On Sleeping and Drowning, Flowers Gallery

  • Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Jealousy II, 1896. © The Trustees of the British Museum

    Edvard Munch: Love and Angst, British Museum Review ★★★★★



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×