RHvR

RHvR

Good Friday seems right for remembering “Judas Repentant” 

because in the news, a Met NYC show includes Rembrandt’s (1606-1669) self-portrait about four years before his death at age 63.

He may have been quite vain, seeing that much of his work was self-portraits, including of himself as a young man

and lifelong, such that one can watch him age. He doesn't develop as handsomely as he might have hoped, rather homely actually. Again for Good Friday,  

In both painting and sketching, much of it is bible subjects, some of it dark and dreary.  

Intriguing is David and Uriah and one wonders what the king might have been saying to explain himself. If, as David intended, Uriah had gone home to Bathsheba instead of being so virtuous, Solomon would never have been. Neither would Jesus who, according to both Matthew (Solomon) and Luke (Nathan), was a descendent of David and Bathsheba.

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