"The density of lines enhances the extraordinary emotion of the moment."
Curator Dita Amory on an unusually large red-chalk drawing by Rembrandt based on Leonardo's "The Last Supper."
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Rembrandt makes da Vinci's "The Last Supper" his own with this chalk study
"The density of lines enhances the extraordinary emotion of the moment."
Dita Amory
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Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
1634–35