Rembrandt: The Light Behind the Canvas

[@bobschenkel7921]

When I was nine years old, my grandmother took me on a three week trip to Europe. Remember the 60's? Our first stop was Amsterdam, and one of the first items on our itinerary was a visit to The Riijksmuseum to see The Nightwatch. It was quite large, that's what I remember, but at that age I didn't truly appreciate the moment. Looking back now I am glad I had the experience, thanks for the memory.

[@Ehrgeiz33]

It used to be bigger actually, it got cut up at some point in history.

[@greggrechka]

Umm congratulations?

[@jona_le_mus]

You already know it’s Simon with his army of videos when you get 3, 4, 5+ notifications from KZbin.

[@lekiscool]

Honestly.

[@jjc5475]

never click the bell icon.

[@ferociousgumby]

It's a pain, isn't it? I watch 1/10 of them and I'm still exhausted.

[@ferociousgumby]

"Simon Says. . . . . . . SEX!!!"

[@arpitdas4263]

The absolute master.His utter control of light and shadow is astounding

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:35 - Chapter 1 - A miller son 3:00 - Chapter 2 - The work begins 5:20 - Chapter 3 - The artist in his studio 6:25 - Chapter 4 - Hitting it big 8:35 - Chapter 5 - The artist evolves 9:45 - Chapter 6 - Who watches the night watch ? 14:25 - Chapter 7 - Trouble in paradise 15:20 - Chapter 8 - The myth of his fall from grace 16:55 - Chapter 9 - History = brown 18:20 - Chapter 10 - Back on the canvas 19:20 - Chapter 11 - His style matures 20:50 - Chapter 12 - A man of many talents 21:45 - Chapter 13 - Redemption denied

[@dl2121A]

Thank you

[@doomi4055]

Thank You Sir

[@BryanHo]

We need more biographies on artists and especially composers which I’ve noticed is the one area particularly lacking on an otherwise wonderfully eclectic channel.

[@Leo17]

The rijksmuseum very nice. Dutch is not easy for an english😀man

[@Concetta20]

I vote Korngold.

[@BeeMcDee]

‘History isn’t brown and grimy’. My two favourite KZbinrs - you and Julian Baumgartner - agree there, indeed. ❤️

[@jeffashley5512]

Rembrandt and Vermeer my two favorite Dutch Masters. I've had two reproductions done and given as gifts. I watch every on them here and elsewhere. Well done. 🎨

[@luuorallemn9921]

"Naked people tangled up in sheets..." Thanks, Simon. I'll never be allowed in a museum or gallery again because as soon as I see a piece of art depicting that very thing, I'll burst into raucous laughter and be escorted out of the building for disturbing the peace. 🤣

[@vizon-aryproductions6191]

how often do you actually go to museums? just do it . who cares

[@quantumfoam539]

I have been waiting for this since the Dutch secceded from the Spanish Empire!

[@Aesyrbane]

Simon, your videos, across all your channels, are some of the best researched, most compelling viewing out there on any platform. When i eventually have children, i'm not sending them to school, I'm making them watch your content from dawn til dusk! Thank you so much!

[@rachelbrenner4092]

As an artist and future curator, I applaud for finally telling a more accurate account then the story about the Night Watch ruining his career, as every art teacher I had told this story. It is hard to correct it in our minds. We can compare it to once believing the story of George Washington cutting down a cherry tree. But it was really the invention of one of his biographers. We can easily believe the sensational lie than the boring truth.

[@daniellescott3198]

Hello...Rachel how are you?

[@Concetta20]

Rembrandt and Holbein are my favorites of Northern Renaissance and Dutch Baroque. They both did a lovely job at capturing light and faces.

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

Suggestions: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Voltaire Henri de Turenne Great Conde

[@JiveDadson]

The point of _The Painter in His Studio_ is the fact that he stands and observes his work-in-progress from a distance, when most painters sat at the easel. Notice the wear on the rung of the easel, the result of decades feet resting on it.

[@Chris.Pontius]

I like how you can easily spot other blazers on his more formal channels.

[@aceofarrows]

For anyone on the fence: Yes, you want to watch Business Blaze.

[@stephjovi]

But beware. No new Blaze for 2 days in a row and you'll get Blazing withdrawals.

[@Urban_Piggy]

He’s a tad unhinged there.

[@stephjovi]

@@Urban_Piggy understatement 🤣

[@studogable]

I live in Omaha. We have a painting that was confirmed as a Rembrandt about 10 years ago and subsequently restored. This video has inspired me to go see it.

[@MrLlcoolveer]

2 Dutch Grandmasters down 1 to go ! van Rhijn & van Gogh are off course truly exeptional , Hieronymus Bosch 1450-1516 is everything beyond immagination . A Bosch Biographic would be great ✌ ☝Thanks for all the great content ,its amazing 🙌🖕💪 1. Jheronimus Bosch - the Garden of the Eartly Delights 2. Vincent van Gogh 👂 Starry Nights/Sunflowers 3. Rembrandt van Rhijn 🤷‍♂️ the Nightwatch

[@casper6405]

Finally some dutch historical characters

[@rubencolvill]

We need a video on Laurel and Hardy. One of the best comedy duos

[@alphatrope]

Possibly one of the more intelligent, insightful, and nuanced episodes. And you cats are always on top of your game!

[@ernestolombardo5811]

Speaking of brilliant yet utterly dysfunctional geniuses of art, I don't know if Biographics has done Caravaggio?

[@maryhildreth754]

Someone needs to paint, in the style of Remrandt, the Pulp Fiction scene where Vincent opens the briefcase.

[@blueberrypirate3601]

Are we happy Vincent? Vincent? Yeah we're happy. You! Flock o Seagulls...

[@maryhildreth754]

@@blueberrypirate3601 even though I have no idea what a Hawaiian burger is, and even though I am a vegetarian, I still really want a Hawaiian burger.

[@mangot589]

I think a painting in the style of Van Gogh would be better.

[@Dank-gb6jn]

If we’re on an artist binge, might I suggest a video over Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec?

[@ehrldawg]

Simon should start another channel explaining classical paintings.

[@sybsybsybsybsyb]

Here I was waiting/ hoping for Simon to stumble on "De Nachtwacht" and he didnt not even try. Hahaa :)

[@Kero7th]

And neither did you

[@stevethegeckotv]

The night watch. Simple.

[@spddiesel]

So he did try?

[@drewlovely2668]

And you diddnt not do did diddnt

[@hamatoJade]

He stumbled on "Rijn" xD

[@patrickdormeus8453]

11:40 Simon: I'm going to call this piece 'The Night Watch'. Jon Snow: 😨*Flashbacks INTENSIFIES😰

[@stephjovi]

Simon be like : wtf is a Night Watch 😂

[@michaelbatts7149]

You always know a Simon Whistler Biographics video. They are funny, witty and enjoyable with Simon's signature charisma coming through.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Don’t forget they have some great scriptwriters.

[@flamencoprof]

When my ex-wife in 1996 arranged a tour of Europe based on artworks I went along with it because Europe. I recall seeing his works and being very impressed, but for some reason, I can now recall Impressionists' more strongly. However, off-topic, Botticelli's Venus actually brought tears to my eyes. p.s. Velasquez also impressed me.

[@jamessturnfield1164]

Any chance you'd ever do a biographic on Caravaggio?

[@ryanrizzo4869]

Great video! Rembrandt is my grandmother's favorite artist! As usual, I'm here to request a video on Ip Man, the martial arts mentor to the late, great Bruce Lee. Four over the top action movies just dim in comparison to the Biographic depth of character. I've long waited for this Biographic, and am excited to eventually see it. Thank you in advance! -A Loyal Subscriber

[@ashtar8630]

Huge fan of Rembrandt. Saw the Night Watch and there was a huge crowd around it. People were sitting on the floor looking at it. To me though The Jewish Bride was what stopped me in my tracks. No reproduction can do it justice.

[@ThatRandomFastingGuy]

"Buckle up because today's episode is about to get a touch Shakespearean." *Instantly references the work of Geoffrey Chaucer a completely different writer.* 10/10, would history again.

[@e.y.3868]

difficult to understand the size of the night watch size... then don't show it in a tiny frame? @11:18

[@mdude625]

Rembrandt is one of the top 3 painters of the Northern Baroque. The others 2 are Rubens and Van Dyck.

[@mdude625]

I forgot about Frans Hals

[@bradleyscott5610]

Do one on Pablo Picasso!!!

[@DarkGlass824]

Any fans of that little gem from the 90s "Incognito "? Love that film.

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

"An excuse for society men to escape into the woods with their mates." In America, we call them threepers.

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

King Crimson's "The Night Watch" is inspired by the Rembrandt painting. Beautiful song.

[@crowedbison9997]

Fun fact Terry Pratceyt used this painting on his book night watch

[@josephwalton487]

Simon man.....you gotta tell me where you are gettin' these dank shirts my dude. Love this channel. My favorite.

[@representativejoints1188]

I feel like Rembrandt when I too buy katanas and precious stones even though I should not spend my money so frivolously.

[@Al3xtheMeh]

One day I'd love to see Simon make a Bio/Geographics video in his Business Blaze style and vice versa.

[@stephjovi]

So a, serious Biographics video about the blazing legend Danny Salter. From starting a dating agency on his trusty C64 to writing for serious business channels to ending up in a basement with Sam writing on a typewriter, about conspiracy theories and the dumbest criminals

[@BlastinRope]

That first painting is dope though

[@itarry4]

I've always thought that the true greats of art must be the opposite of someone like me who has ADHD. To apply paint to feathers like that, to concentrate on the piece for so long and not get distracted. It's totally beyond me.

[@grown.ass.nerd.]

Or maybe it is ADHD that made them hyperfocus on what they were doing.

[@itarry4]

@@grown.ass.nerd. ADHD doesn't work like that from everything I know about it, as a sufferer from a time before every kid who's a bit over active gets the title I've always had an interest in it and needed to find a way to help me stay focused, it took years back then to get diagnosed. We do hyper focus at times but it never ever lasts long before we wander again, they'd have to keep stopping and returning which would really harm their flow. The hyper focus, good memory, thing is a big part of how I cope, I just have to have non important subjects to distract my mind when it wanderers then go back again. Bit more to it obviously but that's the basics. They might well have something similar but different in the way it makes you stay hyper focused rather than not being able to focus for more than a few minutes though, that's definitely possible I'd say. The slightly long answers is also a bit of a thing I have.. 🤔 😉 😅

[@jjc5475]

i'm not even close to rembrant but i hope not. i have ADD but i quite enjoy drawing.

[@Caperhere]

@@grown.ass.nerd. My mother started painting at 50. She had been losing her hearing for decades, was feeling isolated, so my father bought her a starter kit for Christmas. She painted every second she could. Started off with oils. She would have 2 or 3 going at the same time, and a hairdryer going to dry her work, so she could get back to painting as soon as possible. It made her really happy.

[@ilikeyoutube836]

@@itarry4 I have to disagree based on my own experience. I have ADD, and I hyper focus on things more than going from one thing to another. If I'm interested in something I'll research it to the point of exhaustion, and have a hard time getting anything else done until I do eventually lose interest

[@zacharysnyder2520]

My favorite artist.

[@onepiecepedia]

It would be interesting to see a Biographics on *Giuseppe Arcimboldo* . :)

[@staytuned2L337]

Business Blaze is a straight 10/10 would recommend

[@Gravuun]

"at one point in history, it was so heavily varnished that it deflected a knife attack" excuse me WHAT

[@lilymarinovic1644]

I would love Caravaggio to get the Biographics treatment.. .

[@jaybeemhardscrote7466]

SMASHED LIKE!!! Memo: WTH is Business Blaze??? Never heard of it.

[@darkchocolate1083]

Can you do a video on Allan Dulles, director of the CIA?

[@timetraveltvniles7650]

Definitely need a video on John Constable!

[@blueberrypirate3601]

And Samuel Johnson Dictionary Man

[@ethanramos4441]

“Choose only one master-Nature” Rembrandt

[@hamoody703]

I saw the night watch at the Rijksmuseum two years ago its huge.

[@somedutchguy7582]

And it used to be even bigger.

[@a-8007]

Do one for Caravaggio please

[@kahelem6077]

Please do an episode on Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. An amazing Roman emperors who would relinquish his power to take care of his family and farm not once but twice. Continue being awesome ❤️

[@jamesmartin6050]

Here are some suggestions for another video - all interesting people though the first two are lesser known. April Ellison/William Ellison Jr. (1790-1861) - a freed slave from South Carolina who became a successful slaveowner and planter himself before the civil war. Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) - a former indentured servant who became one of the first African American property owners in America and a successful tobacco farmer. Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) - Prince Philip’s uncle and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed who was assassinated by the IRA Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Japanese poet, author, playwright, actor and nationalist who committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow Japan’s 1947 constitution. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - British politician who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from 1721 until 1742 under King George I and King George II. Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach/prime minister) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent Irish figure and one of the most important in Irish history. George Eastman (1854-1932) - American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company. He was a pioneer of photography and a major philanthropist. He commit suicide at the age of 77 because of chronic pain from health problems. Emile Zola (1840-1902) - French novelist and journalist who is an early practitioner in the literary genre, naturalism. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal in France. He died in 1902 at the age of 62 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. ryoichi sasakawa (1899-1995) - Japanese businessman, politician, sports administrator, philanthropist and was criminal who helped Norman Borlaug with his Green Revolution. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) - Irish poet, playwright and translator who won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature and wrote a poem about The Tollund Man comparing his cause of death to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) - Irish poet, dramatist and writer with an interest in the occult who helped found the Abbey Theatre and was a senator for the Irish Free State. He is one of the most important historical figures in Irish history. Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) - husband and consort to Queen Elizabeth who served in the navy as a young man, serving in the Second World War. He died recently so it would be a good choice. Jordan Belfort (born 1962) - former stockbroker, author, motivational speaker and convicted felon who committed fraud via stock market manipulation. His book was the inspiration behind the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013. Past American presidents, British prime ministers, monarchs and Roman emperors would be good as well.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

17:30 Damn, I 've heard of art evoking emotional responses but making a beholder flying into a rage and attack it with a knife, really? WTF?

[@hannamakela6989]

Please do Goya next! And Edward Hopper! :)

[@JiveDadson]

Rembrant would never, ever frame a portrait in which the sitter didn't have plenty of headroom. Observe and learn, Simon.

[@csiwele617]

I quite think drawings of lions with sideburns exude a certain desirable yet rebellious character.

[@mv7647]

Simon: posts video on Dutch icon Dutchies in the comments: G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@Ozymandias1]

At a later period the owners wanted to fit the Nightwatch between two doors so that's why bits on the side were cut off.

[@justamurse5646]

Weird seeing this after I just watched that Art Heist Doc on Netflix in which Rembrandt paintings were stolen from Boston.

[@hearthatehaven]

Literally same. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me for a second

[@joanneoliver8610]

Nice Video. Well done! I'd like to see one done about William Blake. He's one of my all time favourite artists. Cheers! :)

[@captainjack8319]

Just watched the Charles Laughton movie about Rembrandt yesterday. Serendipitous.

[@jakeper662]

It would be really awesome for you guys to do a video on Manly P Hall

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

Now, please, do Johann Sebastian Bach.

[@liquidsleepgames3661]

When you learn more about the artists here than during art class.

[@azizluther]

Simon is like Ryan Seacrest’s youtube. Man just has all the hosting jobs.

[@Koel_Hellion]

The ad here for business Blaze was way to tame lmao

[@twocvbloke]

Wait, Lieutenant Riker? What? The Thomas W. Riker clone caused by a transporter whoopsiedoodle? He was never 2nd in command, that was Commander William T. Riker, you ought to know this as an alleged trekkie Simon!!! :P

[@Augustus_Imperator]

Great biography, thank you for this excellent work.

[@richardmanning6488]

I absolutely love how your describe art. Perhaps another idea for channel.

[@ThorMan91587]

The dismount for this video was pretty jarring.

[@marxug1]

“An early Magic the Gathering card.” 🤣🤣🤣 Which artist, Simon? Pray tell!

[@dawi110]

Miss your podcasts Simon

[@Josh-tx8sj]

Great video!

[@JiveDadson]

Rembrandt would never, ever light a sitter's face on the distal side. Observe and learn, Simon.

[@holmanjag]

The first riker maneuver! I wonder if he stands over chairs and everything possible

[@wmc4920]

"looked like an early magic the gathering card" damn i spat my coffee and wheezing while laughing

[@johnnyjolijt2]

Van RHINE sounds more Dutch.

[@heartywhistler]

Excellent! More artists please!

[@BytebroUK]

Have you considered doing a vid on Srinivasa Ramanujan? Clever bloke, and even G H Hardy apparently said that he had "never met his equal, and can compare him only with Euler or Jacobi". Wow!

[@lekiscool]

Whatever the hell Danny decides to tell us about his life for 30 mins.

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

Well, he gets bored in Simon's basement. 😆

[@leighpowell1062]

He can't talk about himself any longer without mentioning communism

[@stephjovi]

Fondly rembering pre basement life. Wonder if Simon keeps him calm by pretending when Covid is over he'll let him go

[@michaelbookout7561]

Excellent preaentation wiht accurate histoography

[@thna1520]

PLEASE do one on Caravaggio!

[@Jari-95]

Love it that my small country gets a spotlight!But please let the next Dutchman be Michiel de Ruyter 😃

[@jademichalick]

You should do Jared Fogel from subway next!

[@Concetta20]

“Arquebus” sounds like a fantastical airship out of a Jules Verne novel.

[@musiclover01ization]

Do you think you guys could do a Biographics episode on Norman Rockwell?

[@ProjectHazy]

I highly recommend buisness blaze. Simon is awesome when he can just whatever!

[@radu1042]

Simon, can we have an extended one on Duke of Edinburgh?

[@cayloseals]

It is interesting that people would call it unfinished, i figure he left the unimportant parts with less detail to draw less attention to them. Sort of like a blurry background in photos.

[@TheMakersRage]

A long time coming! :-)

[@CyberGaz2077]

Hi Simon...I was hoping you could do a video on George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney

[@pink_alligator]

3:04 you're telling me a town when you haven't even said WHAT COUNTRY he's even in!!

[@rewanji]

As a complement check the beautiful comic by the Dutch artist Typex “Rembrandt”, an unusual visual journey about Rembrandt's life 📙....

[@thesteve580]

I highly recommend Business Blaze.