Rembrandt's Kris (?)

[David]

Originally Posted by ariel

I also do not think we should write it off as artistic license: Rembrandt was very precise.

Rembrandt was, IMHO, a brilliant painter. But his painting style is highly romanticized. It is not photo-realism in style. He used his imagination quite a bit in his work and i don't think that we can accept the depictions of the weapons in his work as being exactly as the models themselves looked. If we look carefully at the gonjo of the Blinding of Samson painting he has clearly added extra curvature which would most probably not be present of on his actual keris. It is one of the great advantages painting has over photography as an art form (though not quite so anymore with photoshop ).