Category: Dutch Art
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Rembrandt’s Leiden — Where the Dutch Golden Age Was Born
Image: Shutterstock Everyone knows that Rembrandt van Rijn was the greatest Dutch painter. Not everyone knows that before he became “Rembrandt of Amsterdam,” he was “Rembrandt of Leiden” — a miller’s son from a small university city 40 kilometres to the south, where he was born, apprenticed, and painted his first masterpieces before moving north…
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Delft — The Small Dutch City That Taught Vermeer How to Paint Light
Image: Shutterstock Johannes Vermeer was born in Delft in 1632 and spent almost his entire life there. He left the city only a handful of times. He painted only about 35 pictures that we know of. And yet those 35 pictures changed how we think about light, windows, domestic quietness, and the slow unfolding of…