Who was Rembrandt?
by 
Answers101
ANSWERS: 2
-
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 â?? October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. Rembrandt was also a proficient printmaker and made many drawings. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age (roughly equivalent to the seventeenth century), in which Dutch world power, political influence, science, commerce, and culture -- particularly painting -- reached their pinnacle. "No artist ever combined more delicate skill with more energy and power," states Chambers's Biographical Dictionary. "His treatment of mankind is full of human sympathy" (J.O. Thorne: 1962.
-
Rembrandt was an artist and a man from the 17th century that knew, in four hundred years time, if any of his paintings and art works were still around, the world would be astonished, at what he had done, and at what he had known at that time.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC