Rembrandt van Rijn has been Referenced by...
His The Night Watch painting has its own page.
Arts
- Illustrator Akihiko Yoshida names him as one of his major influences and it shows with his use of earth tones.
Comic Books
- He appears in an album of Gilles de Geus.
- He also played a major part in the Suske en Wiske adventure De Nachtwachtbrigade.
- In De Kiekeboes album Hotel O all the hotel rooms have names of painters. A famous pop star stays in the Rembrandt room, guarded by his two bodyguards at night, nicknamed his Nightwatch.
- In Asterix and the Soothsayer the soothsayer dissects a fish while Asterix and the other villagers watch him. This is a shout-out to Rembrandt's famous painting of The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp.
Literature
- 1632: A young Rembrandt is a minor character in the series, and is depicted as going through something of a personal crisis after having his life's work shown to him in the time-travellers' books. In the end, he decides to re-make his paintings, but updated (for example, the "new" Night Watch carries pump-action shotguns and the new "Anatomy Lesson" is taught by a woman in modern doctor's whites) and let history decide which ones they like better. Several of the "new" paintings show up as covers for books in the series.
- In the John Christopher post-apocalyptic novel Beyond The Burning Lands, the protagonist explores the crumbling ruins of a pre-disaster mansion and finds one of Rembrandt's paintings still hanging on a wall. The artist's name means nothing to him, but he recognizes the talent on display.
Live-Action TV
- Interview with the Vampire (2022): One of the paintings in the dining room of the Dubai penthouse apartment is The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
Music
- The pop band The Rembrandts (best known for the theme song from Friends) named themselves after him.
Webcomics
- In the webcomic Girl Genius, a guy named "R. Van Rijn" is remembered as one of the most brilliant Sparks ever seen in Europa, even 200 years after his death.
