The stunt cleverly tested—and demonstrated—a new dimension in which performance art can gain traction today: as content.

A fellow Dutchman, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) is widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time.

A Dürer print shows Adam and Eve with a feline between them; Rembrandt represents The Holy Family itself “… With Cat”; there is also the famed cat of Visscher (1629-62), earliest of master ...

"Rembrandt’s Judas Returning the Silver of 1629: Visual and Literary Associations," in: Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, Walter S. Melion and Art DiFuria, eds., Leiden and ...