Historic show marks 350 years of Rembrandt, the 'first Instagrammer'

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum unveiled Wednesday the first ever exhibition of all of its Rembrandts, marking the 350th anniversary of the death of the prolific painter it dubs the “first Instagrammer”. The landmark exhibition featuring nearly 400 paintings, drawings and sketches aims to show how the Golden Age master’s compulsive self-portraits and renderings of the world around him prefigure our modern world. “Rembrandt was the first artist in history — the first ‘Instagrammer’ one could even say — to really capture the world around him,” Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits told AFP. “No artist made as many self-portraits as Rembrandt. He painted his family, he drew his friends, he went out into the streets, the countryside, and he even let us enter his own bedroom to where his sick wife was stretched out.”