Aristotle in front of the torso of Homer

(Leiden 1606 - Amsterdam 1669)



Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn, Dutch painter, one of the most prominent painters in European art, and the most important in the history of Holland.



Son of a miller, after attending Latin school, in 1620 he enrolled in the famous university of his hometown; however, after a year there, his evident vocation for painting led his father to send him to the workshop of an obscure painter from Leiden, Jacob van Swanenburgh, where he remained from...

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