11 April 2022, 12:00 am
Schama on Rembrandt
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions,
Webcasts
End Date
24 April 2022, 11:59 pm
Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Last Years (UK) | Click here to watch
(59 min; 2019; English)
Director: Frank Hanly
Icarus-like, Rembrandt flew ever higher towards the sun - the most successful artist in the richest city on earth, 17th century Amsterdam. He lived like a prince and he loved living like a prince. But when his fall came - deep into bankruptcy and scandal, poverty and unfashionability - far from destroying him, it took him to new creative heights and a sense of humanity and the human condition that speaks more directly to us today than Rembrandt in his heyday. Simon Schama celebrates the masterpieces of Rembrandt's last years.
