Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th birthday is being celebrated by Google through a doodle featuring his self portrait.
The self portrait or 'Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar' was made by Rembrandt in 1659. It is an oil on canvas painting and a celebrated work of the painter. The painting has been preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (US) since 1937, where it's part of the Andrew W. Mellon Collection.
Rembrandt van Rijn is known as one of the greatest painters in Europe and Dutch Republic (Netherlands). The period when he contributed to art, is known as the Dutch Golden age which was known for its cultural achievements.
Art connoisseurs of the 20th century claimed that Rembrandt had made more than 600 paintings, about 400 etchings and 2,000 drawings, though modern day findings under Rembrandt Research Project mentions that he had done about 300 paintings. Among these, 40 paintings are said to be self-portraits. His work runs across the themes of portraits, landscape and narrative painting. His paintings featured rich detail, and depicted religious themes as well. Some of his greatest works include The Abduction of Europa, Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver, The Artist in His Studio, Cottages before a Stormy Sky, The Three Trees, and The Night Watch, among several others.
Rembrandt van Rijn was born on 15 July 1606 in Leiden, in the Dutch Republ.
Rembrandt van Rijn - Google Doodle. On July 15th, 2013 Google honors Rembrandt van Rijn's with a 407th Birthday Google Doodle. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ( 15 July 1606 -- 4 October 1669 ). Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher
The main topics of his paintings and etchings are portraits of his contemporaries self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible.
His most known works are 'Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp', 'Night Watch', 'Belshazzar's Feast', 'Bathsheba at Her Bath' and 'Syndics of the Drapers' Guild'
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Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th birthday is being celebrated by Google through a doodle featuring his self portrait.
The self portrait or 'Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar' was made by Rembrandt in 1659. It is an oil on canvas painting and a celebrated work of the painter. The painting has been preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (US) since 1937, where it's part of the Andrew W. Mellon Collection.
Rembrandt van Rijn is known as one of the greatest painters in Europe and Dutch Republic (Netherlands). The period when he contributed to art, is known as the Dutch Golden age which was known for its cultural achievements.
Art connoisseurs of the 20th century claimed that Rembrandt had made more than 600 paintings, about 400 etchings and 2,000 drawings, though modern day findings under Rembrandt Research Project mentions that he had done about 300 paintings. Among these, 40 paintings are said to be self-portraits. His work runs across the themes of portraits, landscape and narrative painting. His paintings featured rich detail, and depicted religious themes as well. Some of his greatest works include The Abduction of Europa, Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver, The Artist in His Studio, Cottages before a Stormy Sky, The Three Trees, and The Night Watch, among several others.
Rembrandt van Rijn was born on 15 July 1606 in Leiden, in the Dutch Republ
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Google honors Rembrandt van Rijn with a nice doodle. Rembrandt was a dutch painter. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history. Rembrandt paints a lot of self-portraits. The doodle-copy shows one of 1659 (53 years old). Happy birthday Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Google on Monday marked the 407th birth anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn's with a doodle.
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter who made major contributions to European art history.
He was born on July 15, 1606 in Dutch republic, which is now known as the Netherlands.
From a very young age he showed inclination towards painting and was apprenticed to some of the greatest painters of his time such as Pieter Lastman, Jacob van Swanenburgh and Jacob Pynas.
During the initial phase of his career he painted portraits, including several self-portraits.
In 1631, Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, where he successfully established himself as a professional portraitist.
The subjects of Rembrandt's work include the themes of landscape, portraiture and narrative painting.
But his contemporaries glorified him as a masterly interpreter of biblical stories and admired his skills to represent emotions and attention to detail. He mastered the fine technique in portrayal of illusionistic form and also won recognition as a printmaker.
According to 20th century art enthusiasts and connoisseurs, Rembrandt van Rijn may have produced more than 600 paintings, 400 etchings and 2,000 drawings.
A few of his works are highly popular. Some of them include 'Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp' (1632), 'Portrait of the Shipbuilder Jan Rijcksen
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Rembrandt van Rijn - Google Doodle [HD] & Timeline of Rembrandt van Rijn's Life
Rembrandt van Rijn´s 407th birthday
There is a Google Doodle about Rembrandt van Rijn on July 15th, 2013. He is one of the most famous painters and etchers and from Dutch. Rembrandt had produced about 3000 works. Under it 2000 drawings 600 paintings and nearly 400 etchings.
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Claude Debussy, celebrated French music composer, is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle across the world. Debussy is remembered as one of the most prolific figures associated with impressionist music.
Google's animated doodle presents a moonlit riverside scene set to the tunes of Clair de lune (3rd movement from Suite bergamasque) or Moonlight, one of Debussy's best music pieces. The moonlight riverside scene features a star studded sky, flickering streets lights and chimney smoke rising to the tunes of the piece, in addition to a windmill, boats, cycles, cars and balloons.
The scene moves forward to depict rain falling on the river and concludes with two different boats crossing paths and the rowers sharing a red coloured umbrella.
Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in France on 22 August 1862. He started taking piano lessons in Cannes at the age of seven, where he had moved with his mother during the Franco-Prussian war. Debussy entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1872, where he spent 11 years.
In 1884 Debussy received the Prix de Rome honour for his composition L'enfant prodigue, and a scholarship to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, that featured a four-year residence at the Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome, to pursue his studies, further. However, he found the the atmosphere at Villa Medici stifling, and left within a year, though he did compose four pieces that were sen
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Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday is being celebrated by Google through an interactive doodle.
Born on 8 November 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach was a Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for inventing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test.
The inkblot test - or the Rorschach test - is a psychological test using which a person's interpretations of inkblots are recorded and assessed through psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. The test is used by psychologists to analyse a person's personality traits and emotional functioning. It's also used for detecting underlying thought disorders, especially when individuals are hesitant to talk about their thinking processes openly.
Friday's interactive Google doodle honouring Hermann Rorschach features different inkblot patterns that can be browsed by clicking on them or on the navigation array keys. The doodle also features a 'Share what you see button' that allows you to share your interpretation of the inkblot on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. The doodle also features a sketch of Hermann Rorschach sitting and making notes.
Hermann Rorschach was fond of klecksography, the art of making inkblots since his school days. He later studied under the guidance of eminent psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler. He first started psychoanalysis through inkblots by analysing response of school ch
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Dian Fossey is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle celebrating the 82th birth anniversary of the American zoologist.
Google is known for its innovative doodles, and the latest one is no different. The Dian Fossey doodle has a large number of gorillas with Fossey depicted as taking notes, and a gorilla stroking her hair. The Google doodle also has a plane flying over the mountains.
Born in California in 1932, Dian Fossey undertook a virtual lifelong study of gorillas with the majority of her work being focussed in Africa, particularly in Congo and in Rwanda. Amongst her works, she is widely credited for writing the book Jamie in the Mist, which details her personal research in Rwanda. Dian Fossey's works also detail the social structure in gorillas, the lifestyle, the habitats and the behaviour of the primates. She worked on the same in Africa from 1963 till her death in 1985.
Dian Fossey began working with gorillas in Africa under the advice of anthropologist Louis Leakey. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, an organisation dedicated to protection and conservation of gorillas, mentions that it was a love for animals that paved the way for her from being a veterinarian to eventually a zoologist.
In addition Diane Fossey's work was also aimed at ending poaching of the animals. In 1985, Dian Fossey was murdered in her apartment in Rwanda, and it believed she was killed by locals over her anti-
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Clara Schumann's 193rd birth anniversary is the subject of the latest Google doodle. Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer. She was born on September 13, 1819 and was considered to be one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era.
Today's doodle has Clara Schumann surrounded by her eight children, all of whom are seen playing the piano. There is an effective use of lively colours - blue, red, yellow and green to form the letters 'Google'.
Clara's parents separated when she was just four and was raised by her father Friedrich Wieck. She was inspired by her father and learnt the ropes of playing a piano. Her first performance was at the age of eight at the Leipzig home of Dr. Ernst Carus, director of a mental hospital at Colditz Castle. It is here that she met her future spouse and gifted pianist Robert Schumann. Schumann was nine years elder to Clara. He was so impressed with her performance that he left his studies to learn the piano from Clara's father.
Clara was considered to be a child prodigy and her music was famous all across Europe. When Clara was eighteen, she performed a series of recitals in Vienna between December 1837 and April 1838. This is how Clara felt about composing music, 'Composing gives me great pleasure...there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.&qu
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Ada Lovelace, born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English mathematician and writer widely known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She worked on what is believed to be the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, making her the world's first known computer programmer.
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, considered to be the father of the computer. He first proposed the use of a mechanical computer in 1822 for computing in the fields of astronomy and mathematics. He received funding from British government to build such a machine in 1823, and spent the next several years trying to build the Difference Engine.
By the time the government killed the project in 1842, they had given Babbage over ₤17,000, without receiving a working engine. By then, Babbage had moved on to building his more general purpose Analytical Engine, something he first described in 1837.
The Analytical Engine consisted of an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, a design that continues to form the backbone of modern-day computers.
Ada Lovelace met and corresponded with Charles Babbage on many occasions, including socially and in relation to Babbage's Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. Ada became fascinated with his Difference Engine and translated Italian mathematician
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