"Blink and you might miss it, but at the one-hour mark of Wake Up Dead Man, the latest installment in Netflix's Knives Out mystery series, a painted seascape briefly appears when Father Jud Duplenticy (played by Josh O'Connor) sits at his desk to write his recollections of a shadowy murder. This is the only scene in which that room appears, and savvy viewers will notice the canvas at stage left as Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633),"
"Rembrandt painted this biblical scene early in his career, at age 27, and it shows panicked disciples struggling to regain control of their fishing boat after a storm suddenly swept in. A story about human vulnerability and fear, Christ remains calm and ultimately says, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" before calming the storm. Only one figure looks out at the viewer, a self-portrait of Rembrandt himself-one hand holding a cap that might fly off, the other holding a rope."
At the one-hour mark of Wake Up Dead Man a painted seascape briefly appears when Father Jud Duplenticy sits at his desk to write recollections of a shadowy murder. The canvas is Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), one of 13 masterpieces stolen in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. The painting shows panicked disciples struggling to control a fishing boat while Christ remains calm; one figure is a self-portrait of Rembrandt. The Knives Out series frequently includes high-profile art cameos. Glass Onion featured works from da Vinci, Matisse, Picasso and others. The Gardner Museum acknowledges a reproduction appears but did not collaborate with the production.
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