As a young painter in Leiden, Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn signed his canvases with a monogram, ...
The Night Watch was supposed to be a group portrait - a pretty popular form of art in the Dutch Golden Age for well-to-do gentlemen and their various societies. But Rembrandt broke all the rules ...
He had made his success with portraits, but Rembrandt preferred to paint religious subjects, which failed to interest Calvinist Amsterdam. Before his death, Rembrandt devoted 600 known drawings ...