“Highbrow to lowbrow” is how a famous Dutch tattoo artist describes his latest project of inking sketches by Rembrandt onto the skin of visitors to The Rembrandt House Museum, once home to the Golden Age master.
By MIKE CORDERHenk Schiffmacher's needle whirrs as he tattoos the lines of am elephant on Lilian Rachmaran's back in Amsterdam, Monday, June 19, 2023. "Highbrow to lowbrow" is how the famous Dutch tattoo artist describes his latest project, inking drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn onto the skin of visitors to the building the Golden Age master once called home.
“Highbrow to lowbrow” is how the famous Dutch tattoo artist describes his latest project — inking sketches by Rembrandt van Rijn onto the skin of visitors to the building the Golden Age master once called home.The Rembrandt House Museum has transformed one of its rooms into a tattoo parlor for a residency it calls “A Poor Man’s Rembrandt,” featuring Schiffmaker and other top Amsterdam tattoo artists for a week starting Monday.
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