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Article: REMBRANDT'S AMSTERDAM TRAVELING EXHIBIT TO HONOR ARTIST'S WORKS.(Travel)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- September 1, 1991
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Byline: Ann Jarmusch Copley News Service
The name and swaggering image of Rembrandt van Rijn still rumble through Amsterdam - from the famed paintings in the Rijksmuseum to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum and corner bars bearing the artist's name and jaunty likeness.
Making a tour of the canal city Rembrandt knew isn't as easy as you might think, but the underpinnings of the "Golden Age" burg survive. Enough 17th-century canal houses, flower-sprigged courtyards and public monuments still stand to let us imagine the place that attracted Rembrandt (1606-69).
In 1631, he permanently moved from his native Leiden (about 25 miles to the southwest) to ...