Q 01/05

Which Amsterdam museum is home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch?

A) The Van Gogh Museum

B) The Rembrandt House Museum

C) The Stedelijk Museum

D) The Rijksmuseum

Answer · why

D) The Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum has kept the painting on show even while restoring it: since 2019 conservators have worked on the canvas inside a glass chamber in the...

Q 02/05

What was the trade of Rembrandt's father?

A) Baker

B) Brewer

C) Miller

D) Weaver

Answer · why

C) Miller

Miller was an unusual start: unlike most painters of his day he had no artists or craftsmen in the family, yet the business paid well enough to send h...

Q 03/05

Rembrandt's first teacher, Jacob van Swanenburg, back from years in Naples, specialised in which dramatic subject?

A) Battles at sea

B) Flower markets

C) Hell and its fires

D) Skating parties

Answer · why

C) Hell and its fires

Hell and its fires meant painting flames and their glow on everything around them, and that early training may lie behind Rembrandt's lifelong fascina...

Q 04/05

Pieter Lastman, Rembrandt's teacher for six months in Amsterdam, specialised in which kind of picture?

A) Bible and myth scenes

B) Merchant portraits

C) Dutch landscapes

D) Flower still lifes

Answer · why

A) Bible and myth scenes

Bible and myth scenes, then called history painting, ranked above every other subject, and Rembrandt's first known works are small stories that rework...

Q 05/05

Which fellow painter, a former child prodigy, worked side by side with Rembrandt in his home town in the late 1620s?

A) Gerrit Dou

B) Ferdinand Bol

C) Govert Flinck

D) Jan Lievens

Answer · why

D) Jan Lievens

Jan Lievens was a year younger, yet he was already a working artist when Rembrandt chose the trade; the pair grew so close in style that experts still...