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Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn Biography (Leiden 1606 to Amsterdam 1669)

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was a 17th Century Dutch artist known for his oil paintings, drawings and etchings.

His interests in ancient sculpture, Flemish and Italian Renaissance paintings, Far Eastern art and contemporary Dutch works helped lead to his success, in which he had an assortment of antiquities such as weapons and armory that he used as props for his compositions.

He was also known as a master of the period of artistic style called Baroque. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and etchers in European history, and the greatest in Dutch.

Rembrandt’s artistic contributions came in a period of great wealth and culture known to historians as the Dutch Golden Age.

He is known for being an extremely prolific and innovative artist, largely adapting the technique known as chiaroscuro. This is an art form that, in eneral, has come to mean the interplay of light and shadow on a su