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What Is The Meaning Of Christ In The Sea Of Galilee
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The title of the painting is Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Gallilee and was painted in 1633 by Rembrandt Van Rijn. Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and etcher who worked and lived during the Dutch Golden Age. The dimensions of the painting are 168 centimeters by 128 centimeters. The materials of the artwork employed are oil on canvas. The last known location of it was the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston Massachusetts, until March 18, 1990 when it was stolen from the museum and has not yet been recovered. A link to the painting is as follows: http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt99.html Technical Features:
Rembrandt used oil on canvas to paint this artwork. One process he used called sprezzatura

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