| Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn was born in Holland on July 15, 1606. He is
known as one of the greatest painters in history. When he was in
his teens, he began to study art, and by the time he was 22 he already
had students of his own!
Rembrandt
created hundreds of paintings, drawings and etchings (a drawing cut into
a metal plate and then stamped onto paper). He was specially good
at making pictures of people. Sometimes these were large crowds of
people, or sometimes a portrait (a picture of a person). He paid
close attention to details, and would sometimes have people wear costumes
which he painted very carefully.
Rembrandt
even used himself as a model in almost 60 "self-portraits." He used
his own face to experiment with different expressions … angry, surprised,
happy. |
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