Rembrandt

In an age when painters tended increasingly to specialize, Rembrandt towered over his contemporaries in the breadth of his creative powers. Even in the early works which he painted in Leiden, we already see the bold realism and deep understanding of character which were to be the hallmarks of his genius. After he had settled in Amsterdam in 1631, he became the leading portrait painter in the city, successfully reconciling his own expressive aims with the stylistic formality which his rich sitter...

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