“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.
“It's a juxtaposition — a jump from high to low, from highbrow to lowbrow,” Schiffmacher told The Associated Press. “And it's great that these two worlds can visit one another. Actually it's really one world because it's about art.” Schiffmacher and his colleagues have adapted some of Rembrandt's sketches to make them suitable for tattooing — making lines thinner so they don't grow together as the tattoo ages.