"It's the Arts" Birthdays

Christ in a Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Today is the birthday of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. In honor of it, I thought I would post the above sea-scape, the only one Rembrandt is ever known to have done. (This painting was one of several stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990 and, apparently, never yet recoverd.)

It also happens to be the birthday of Inigo Jones, the great 17th Century architect and some-time collaborator/feuder with Ben Jonson. In his honor, I thought I'd post one of his most famous works - the Queen's House, Greenwich.

So far as I know, nobody has made off with it.