Abstract In 1911 visitors to the Amsterdam house where Rembrandt lived between 1639 and 1658 were disappointed find no working studio, bedroom or personal collections. his design for Rembrandthuis museum, architect K.P.C. de Bazel had chosen not create a period interior, but instead combined domestically scaled rooms with museum displaying Rembrandt’s prints. The project registered early twenti...

The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) left behind the largest collection of self-portraits in the history of art. Although about 40 of his oil paintings could be considered "self-portraits," controversy still exists regarding 14 of them. We undertook to determine the identity of the painter or the subject. Our work was based on the generally accepted premise that these portraits repr...

We describe the pattern of fixations of subjects looking at figurative and abstract paintings from different artists (Molina, Mondrian, Rembrandt, della Francesca) and at modified versions in which different aspects of these art pieces were altered with simple digital manipulations. We show that the fixations of the subjects followed some general common principles (e.g., being attracted to sali...