Rembrandt: The Late Works Review – Dark, Impassioned, Magnificently Defiant

THE GUARDIAN
By Laura Cumming

Visitors to the National Gallery in front of Rembrandt’s The Jewish Bride: ‘a secular
altarpiece, an inspiration to patience, humility and kindness’. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

UNITED KINGDOM---"Rembrandt: The Late Works" is the experience of a lifetime. It is the first time these astounding masterpieces have been brought together in a single show, and given their immeasurable value – from The Jewish Brideto Bathsheba, Lucretia, The Anatomy Lesson and The Syndics, from the images of sons and lovers to the inexhaustibly profound self-portraits – it may well be the last. Tenderest of all is The Jewish Bride, the man and woman whose names are lost but whose love survives. [link]

"Rembrandt: The Late Works" is at the National Gallery, London WC2 until 18 January 2015