Dutch painter, d. 1669

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Title: Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation Author: Estelle M.

The Syndics of the Cloth Guild and the print of Christ Preaching will compensate for these omissions, and show Rembrandt at his best, both with brush and burin.

While Raphael peoples his canvases with beautiful creatures of another realm, Rembrandt draws his material from the common world about us.

For all these contrasts between the actual and the ideal, Rembrandt had a perfect vehicle of artistic expression in chiaroscuro.

Knackfuss and now translated into English has one number devoted to Rembrandt, containing nearly one hundred and sixty reproductions from his works, with descriptive text.

Nevertheless these changes were brought about only very gradually, and in the 17th century, when Rembrandt lived and painted this picture, a great stir was made by the new ideas of astronomy taught by Galileo in Italy, and the new discoveries in chemistry made by Van Helmont in Belgium.

So it seems perfectly proper that Rembrandt, in representing the subject, should show us an old Dutch scene.

Below the picture Rembrandt wrote his name and the date 1633, with two Latin words meaning that he designed and etched the plate himself.

The painter Rembrandt knew nothing about the architecture of the old Jewish temple destroyed many centuries before.

The beautiful contrast, between the light on the central group and the soft dimness of the remoter parts of the cathedral, illustrates a style of work for which Rembrandt was very famous, and which we shall often see in his pictures.

The sweet gentleness in the face of Christ and the eager attention of the people show how well Rembrandt understood the real meaning of the New Testament.

Something still better Rembrandt sought to put into his picture, and this was a gentle expression of love.

The friendship presently ended in courtship, and when Rembrandt pressed his suit the marriage seemed a very proper one.

A few years later Rembrandt moved into a fine house in the Breestraat, which he furnished richly with choice paintings and works of art.

One record of their friendship in these years is a little etched landscape which Rembrandt made in 1641, showing a bridge near the country estate of the Six family, a place called Elsbroek, near the village of Hillegom.