Divine Encounter: Rembrandt’s ’Abraham and the Angels’

“Divine Encounter: Rembrandt’s ’Abraham and the Angels,“ on view at The Frick Collection from May 30, 2017, through August 20, 2017 Beginning in the late 1630s and increasingly through the 1640s, Rembrandt shifted away from the dynamic movement of his earlier work towards imagery characterized by stillness and calm. These are the defining qualities of the artist’s Abraham Entertaining the Angels of 1646, in which a momentous episode of divine revelation unfolds in the most hushed of ways — dramatic action