Rembrandt birthday celebrations underway

Art Business News, April, 2006

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Events to commemorate Rembrandt's 400th birthday are underway. Among them:

* The Van Gogh Museum is hosting a blockbuster exhibition: "Rembrandt & Caravaggio, an Encounter Between Two Geniuses of the Northern and Southern Baroque." Monumental paintings will offer visual treats of powerful images exuding love, emotion and passion through June 18, 2006.

* The Rijksmuseum is exhibiting all of its Rembrandt paintings and drawings through Dec. 31.

* The Rijksmuseum is also presenting "Really Rembrandt?", an exhibition of pieces that were once been attributed to Rembrandt, but in fact were not real Rembrandts, through May 31.

* The Rembrandt House Museum (in Leiden), the house in which the master lived and worked for more than 20 years, is hosting four exhibitions: "Rembrandt, The Quest of a Genius" (April 1--June 25, 2006); "Rembrandt House: Rembrandt and English Etching" (December 17, 2005-March 12, 2006); "Rembrandt the Etcher" (July 1-Aug. 27, 2006); and "Uylenburgh & Son, Art and Commerce in Rembrandt's Time" (Sept. 9-Dec. 3, 2006).

* "Rembrandt Walking Route City of Amsterdam and Leiden," throughout 2006.

* "Rembrandt, the Narrator," Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, April 13-Sept. 3, 2006

* "The Essence of Rembrandt," Amsterdam Historical Museum, Amsterdam, May 12-Aug. 13.

* "A Summer with Rembrandt in Mauritshuis Museum," The Hague, June 26-Sept. 18, 2006.

* "Rembrandt, the Musical in Royal Carre Theatre," Amsterdam, July 15, 2006-Feb. 2007

* "Rembrandt and the Bible in Biblical Museum," Amsterdam, Sept. 15-Dec. 10, 2006

* "The 'Jewish' Rembrandt in Jewish Historical Museum," Amsterdam, Nov. 10, 2006-Feb. 4, 2007.

For more information, contact the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions, 212-370-7360, ext. 24; visit www.rembrandt400.com. ABN