Self-Portrait With Gorget's World By Christopher Rembratt

Portraits began from aristocrats paid artists to paint themselves for their homes, or to keep memory of them even after death. Not many artist painted themselves outside of their commissions of painting higher ups in society. Rembrandt was not one of those artist, he painted himself from his early age, to near death, showing his progress as an artist, and how he aged. In the world of self-portraits, Rembrandt was one of the few 17th century artists that expanded on the idea of self-portraits, and created a warm world of light and texture through his use thick paint. Rembrandt also used limited his use of details in his paintings to order to develop a stronger composition in his portraits. In Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with Gorget made in 1629,

The history of Rembrandt starts off with him learning the fundamentals before diving into the core of what he could do with paint on a canvas While he did this, he also took the knowledge he learned and applied it in his lighting and value map. What Bloch describes as “Rembrandt’s World”. His point of view, and how he visualized himself in his early self-portrait, Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with Gorget, it demonstrates his early experience with the Italians, as his style looks as if it was a normal Renaissance painting, from the early 17th century. According to Bloch no one discovered the spectacle of his self-portraits till the 19th century. Comparing Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with Gorget, to Self-Portrait with Two Circles. That his intentions as an artist and what he wanted to create became more noticeable as he aged into an aged

He did this because “By depicting himself wearing a bonnet in his self-portraits, Rembrandt used this historical sixteenth-century item of clothing in a completely new context. He was the first artist to present himself in this way in his self-portraits” (Winkle 189). It adds realism and tells us more about him a painter from that time period with the type of uniform he had while painting and how he painted his emotions. While his younger self did not wear a beret, there was one in Two Circles, which adds to the quote, that he added this to present himself in a way he wanted to present himself to us. However it this also shows the king of clothing people had in Dutch 17th century. “ever since a young age her has used clothing as a main factor in his artwork, and used it to tell stories about himself” and he still does that with his later paintings as he does with his younger ones (Winkle 189). Something else to note is that, “In the last years of his life, too, Rembrandt made use of elements from prints by illustrious predecessors for the costume in his self-portrait” (Winkel 186). He took inspiration from other mediums and used them to advance his own artwork in terms of historical accuracy. Clothing was never considered an important concept in self-portrait painting, until Rembrandt decided that he wanted to present himself differently and use clothes to