{"id":430,"date":"2010-11-29T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=430"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:25:00","slug":"analects-of-the-core-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/29\/analects-of-the-core-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Rembrandt&#8217;s self-portrait at age 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow afternoon, the students of <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc201\">CC201<\/a> will attend a lecture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ah\/faculty\/Zell.html\">Prof. Michael Zell<\/a> on the art of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_Golden_Age_painting\">Dutch master<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rembrandt\">Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn<\/a>. In acknowledgment of this artful inclusion of painting in the second-year Humanities, today&#8217;s Analect &#8212; suggested by Tom Farndon (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12) &#8212; is an image rather than a text quote.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/Rembrandt-self-portrait.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/Rembrandt-self-portrait.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/paintings\/rembrandt-self-portrait-at-the-age-of-34\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"300\" width=\"267\" alt=\"rembrandt\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/rembrandt-267x300.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/rembrandt-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/rembrandt.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Self-portrait at the age of 34, by Rembrandt, 1640, oil on canvas, 102 x 80 cm, National Gallery, London.) Tom writes: &#8220;Rembrandt was very well known for his etchings, but even more so for his devotion to portraying a true interpretation of himself in his self-portraits, avoiding vanity and exaggeration. See more examples of his work and find a directory of museum holdings at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rembrandtpainting.net\/\">RembrandtPainting.net<\/a>, a clearing house of information about the artist maintained by independent art historian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Janson\">Jonathan Janson<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow afternoon, the students of CC201 will attend a lecture by Prof. Michael Zell on the art of Dutch master Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. In acknowledgment of this artful inclusion of painting in the second-year Humanities, today&#8217;s Analect &#8212; suggested by Tom Farndon (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12) &#8212; is an image rather than a text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,244],"tags":[3915,3828,4260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}