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Rembrandt HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (b. ...
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606, in Leiden, the Netherlands. His father was a miller who wanted the boy to follow a learned profession, but Rembrandt left the University of Leiden to study painting. ... When Rembrandt became established as a painter, he began to teach and continued teaching art throughout his life. ... In addition to portraits, Rembrandt attained fame for his landscapes, while as an etcher he ranks among the foremost of all time. ...
In 1636 Rembrandt began to depict quieter, more contemplative scenes with a new warmth in color. ... Rembrandt was at his most inventive in the work popularly known as The Night Watch, painted in 1642. ... Each man is painted with the care that Rembrandt gave to single portraits, yet the composition is such that the separate figures are second in interest to the effect of the whole. ...
Rembrandt had become accustomed to living comfortably. ... In “Peter Denying Christ” (Fig 1) Rembrandt continues to further his new broader style, thus serving to reinstate himself as a true master painter of history. ... The partons who ordered Rembrandt’s work new of his broader emotional style and would have chosen them for that reason.
In “Peter Denying Christ”, Rembrandt uses emotion and light to tell the story, but in one of his later paintings, “The Return of The
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Prodigal Son”, (1669) (fig 3) his emtions are at their highest.
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