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Article: REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
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Even a short list of the world's greatest artists would include the
name of the great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. The Netherlands
of the 1600s produced many great painters, but Rembrandt outshines
them all.
Rembrandt was born in 1606 in the town of Leiden, in the Netherlands,
the sixth of seven children of a middle-class miller. He must have
been an intelligent child, because he was chosen to be sent to the
local Latin school. Later, he entered the University of Leiden but
left after a short time there to become an artist's apprentice.
He moved between Leiden and Amsterdam, finally opening a studio at
the age of 19 in Amsterdam. Rembrandt never studied in Italy, ...