Friday, October 10, 2014

Death masks and warm smiles

Rembrandt van Rijn – Self-portrait in a Cap, With Eyes Wide Open, 1630.

 A new exhibition on pain and pleasure in art asks whether the face is truly the mirror of the soul. More than 50 works from the golden age of Dutch painting – on show at the Frans Hals Museum, in Haarlem, the Netherlands – embrace every emotion from despair to lust.

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