…Rembrandt has captured to perfection the moment with this wild and dangerous, wet and pitching storm. … Rembrandt did not know Galilee, of course. But he was a Dutchman, and he knew about storms at sea. He also knew the end of of this powerful story, and at the top of his painting, left, the sun is already breaking through.
Durham, John I. The Biblical Rembrandt. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2004.
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