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Rembrandt van Rijn is a historically famous dutch painter during what was considered the, "The Dutch Golden Age," in the 17th Century. I gravitate towards his work for the similar reason I like Caravaggio, which is a darker aesthetic especially later in his life. As the portrait below demonstrates Rembrandt operates on a more darker range of tonal values and especially later in life he would often times prefer to leave his paintings with a sketchy "unfinished" quality which I feel as though added to the moody and gritty aesthetic to it that I really love.

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I'm also a huge fan of his sketches. Even though they don't really have a finished look about them, I just admire his ability to go out into life and sketch whatever he wanted. No matter how, "sketchy" it looked it was still clear what each subject was and I just can't help but appreciate that finesse. To be honest, I'm also a little envious and it's a little comforting to know even before I looked more into him that we both shared this similar interest in compulsively just going out in public and sketching from life whatever was there. I hope I can draw like that one day though. In any case these sketches can be telling about his own life.

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This first gift would be a little selfish of me, in part because I'd want to see Rembrandt interpret glass animals because it's said he for each group of animals he would try to capture them in a certain medium that he though would be best in order to show stuff like texture of the skin or hair. So I'd want to see how he'd interpret these creatures if they were made of glass. Rembrandt himself was known to sketch wild life and if he could see and exotic animal like a lion or an elephant he would not hesitate to get out his tools and draw it.

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Another gift I would try to get is a wild flower as portrayed in one of Rembrandt's painting's of Saskia, his first wife. I would try and find one of those flowers and press it in order to preserve it for a longer period of time in order to commemorate her. Rembrandt tried to paint and draw Saskia with a flower as often as he could and even in his first sketch of her after they'd just gotten engaged she was holding flower. It's often said that these pieced of work were in place of poems.

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Rembrandt himself was a fan as much as an artist and highly  admired other artists, especially art from the old masters. He would even go out and try to buy original art for himself.  He did run into financial problems later in life and it's in part because of things like this, he was not very frugal with his money and would buy a lot of stuff he probably shouldn't have. At least he probably shouldn't have been so lavish with money, but he did it, "in the name of art," and thought there were enough people buying his own art he wouldn't have to worry about it. Here though I would just hope to add to that collection of his knowing that he does have some that Caravaggio influence in him with that similar use of dramatic lighting.

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As stated earlier, Rembrandt was not frugal with his money and his spending habits certainly were not limited to his paintings. He was a bit of a shopaholic and would buy luxury clothes along with other luxury items such as armor, statues, weapons, but still somehow, "in the name of art." He didn't just see himself as an artist, but also of a higher class and his spending certainly reflected that for a time. So to continue this sentiment I would want to buy Rembrandt samurai armor to add to his collection, "in the name of art."

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I would get Rembrandt a Tibetan Mastiff if I could because of that bombastic sort of air he carried with him. As mentioned earlier he has an eye for higher class luxury stuff and he likes exotic animals and would draw them whenever he got the chance. There's nothing else that could fill both of those sweet teeth with a big old sweetie like a Tibetan Mastiff. This dog vaguely resembles a lion and I can't help, but laugh a little thinking of how ecstatic or shocked about a 17th century man like Rembrandt would be to see a big boy like this.

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Lastly I would get Rembrandt a miniature mill that resembles somewhat of the mill his dad worked on in a river called van Rijn, for which he was nicknamed after. This would be just to remind him where he came from, knowing that he would need that from time to time as he did get a little full of himself there in his mid life assuming he was a higher class member whose income would never stop coming in. I know some of his, "errors" would be to finish a commission for someone and end up painting something they didn't originally ask for. Instead rather assumed what would be best. In those cases I think he might've needed a reality check and eventually that's kind of what he got after having to go somewhere cheaper because of financial problems.

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The gift wrap for these gifts would be designed so that the paper would have tiny prints of various famous painting including that of the renaissance era paintings. As mentioned earlier, Rembrandt was as much a fan as he was a painter so I just wanted to continue that sentiment here.

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My information came from a video on Youtube called, "The Power of Art: Rembrandt [BBC]," and a book called, "Rembrandt Drawings," by Seymour Slive. The video is pretty similar to the Caravaggio video in class with the way their lives were dramatized. The book offers a lot of insight into Rembrandt's sketches and in turn his life and I highly recommend for anyone that wants to know more about Rembrandt.