See soorce fer Rembrandt

{{Infobox artist
| bgcolour      = #EEDD82
| name          = Rembrandt van Rijn
| image         = Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg
| caption       = ''[[Self-Portrait wi Beret an Turned-Up Collar]]'' (1659), [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington,&nbsp;D.C.
| birth_name    = Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn
| birth_date    = {{birth date|df=yes|1606|7|15}}<ref name="BY">Or possibly 1607 as on 10 Juin 1634 he himself claimed tae be 26 year auld. See [http://www.codart.nl/news/82/ Is the Rembrandt Year being celebrated one year too soon? One year too late?] an {{nl}} J. de Jong, [http://www.nd.nl/artikelen/2006/februari/03/rembrandts-geboortejaar-een-jaar-te-vroeg-gevierd Rembrandts geboortejaar een jaar te vroeg gevierd] for soorces anent Rembrandts birth year, especially supportin 1607.  However maist soorces continue tae uise 1606.</ref>
| birth_place   = [[Leiden]], [[Dutch Republic]] (now [[Netherlands]])
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=yes|1669|10|4|1606|7|15}}
| death_place   = [[Amsterdam]], Dutch Republic (now Netherlands)
| nationality   = Dutch
| field         = Pentin, [[Prentmakkin]]
| training      =
| movement      = [[Dutch Gowden Age penting|Dutch Gowden Age]]<br />[[Baroque]]
| works         = ''[[The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]]'', 1632<br />
''[[Belshazzar's Feast (Rembrandt)|Belshazzar's Feast]]'', 1635<br />
''[[The Night Watch]]'',  1642<br />
''[[Bathsheba at Her Bath]]'', 1654<br />
''[[Syndics of the Drapers' Guild]]'', 1662
| patrons       =
| awards        = }}
'''Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn''' ({{IPA-nl|ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin|lang|Rembrandtvanrijn.ogg}}; 15&nbsp;Julie 1606<ref name="BY"/>&nbsp;– 4&nbsp;October 1669) wis a [[Dutch fowk|Dutch]] penter an [[etchin|etcher]]. An innovative an proleefic [[Auld Masters|master]] in three [[airt medium|media]], he is generally conseedert ane o the greatest [[veesual airtists]] in the [[history o airt]] an the maist important in Dutch airt history.<ref name="Gombrich, p. 420">Gombrich, p. 420.</ref> Unlik maist [[Dutch masters]] o the 17t century, [[:Category:Warks bi Rembrandt|Rembrandt's warks]] depict a wide range o style an subject maiter, frae [[portrait pentin|portraits]] an sel-portraits tae laundscapes, genre scenes, allegorical an historical scenes, biblical an meethological themes as weel as ainimal studies. His contreibutions tae airt came in a period o great walth an cultural achievement that historians cry the [[Dutch Gowden Age]], whan [[:Category:Airt o the Dutch Gowden Age|Dutch airt]] (especially [[Dutch Gowden Age penting|Dutch pentin]]), awtho in mony weys antithetical tae the [[Baroque|Baroque style]] that dominatit Europe, wis extremely proleefic an innovative, an gae rise tae important new genres. Lik mony airtists o the Dutch Gowden Age, sic as [[Jan Vermeer]] o Delft, Rembrandt wis an aw an avid [[airt collector]] an [[airt dealer|dealer]].

Rembrandt niver went abraid, but he wis conseederably influenced bi the wark o the [[Italian masters]] an [[Netherlandish airt]]ists that haed studied in Italy, lik [[Pieter Lastman]], the [[Utrecht Caravaggists]], an [[Flemish Baroque peentin|Flemish Baroque]] [[Peter Paul Rubens]]. Haein achieved youthfu success as a portrait penter, Rembrandt's later years war merkit bi personal tragedy an financial haurdships. Yet his etchins an pentins war popular ootthrou his lifetime, his reputation as an airtist remeened heich,<ref>Gombrich, p. 427.</ref> an for twenty years he taucht mony important Dutch penters.<ref name=Clark_203>{{Harvnb|Clark|1969|pp=203}}</ref>

Rembrandt's portraits o his contemporaries, sel-portraits an illustrations o scenes frae the Bible are regairdit as his greatest creautive triumphs. [[Sel-portraits bi Rembrandt|His sel-portraits]] form a unique an intimate biografie, in that the airtist surveyed himsel withoot vanity an wi the utmaist sincerity.<ref name="Gombrich, p. 420">Gombrich, p. 420.</ref> Rembrandt's foremaist contreibution in the history o prentmakkin wis his transformation o the etchin process frae a relatively new reproductive technique intae a true [[airt form]], alang wi [[Jacques Callot]]. His reputation as the greatest [[etcher]] in the history o the medium wis established in his lifetime an niver quaistened syne. Few o [[Leet o pentins bi Rembrandt|his pentins]] left the [[Dutch Republic]] whilst he leeved, but his [[auld master prents|prents]] war circulatit ootthrou Europe, an his wider reputation wis ineetially based on them alane.

In his warks he exhibitit knawledge o clessical [[iconografie]], that he mauldit tae fit the requirements o his awn experience; sicweys, the depiction o a biblical scene wis informed bi Rembrandt's knawledge o the speceefic text, his assimilation o clessical composeetion, an his observations o [[Amsterdam]]'s [[Jewish Amsterdam|Jewish population]].<ref name=Clark_203_204>{{Harvnb|Clark|1969|pp=203–204}}</ref> Acause o his empathy for the human condeetion, he haes been cried "ane o the great prophets o ceevilisation".<ref name=Clark_205>{{Harvnb|Clark|1969|pp=205}}</ref> The French sculptor [[Auguste Rodin]] said, "Compare me wi Rembrandt! Whit sacrilege! Wi Rembrandt, the colossus o Airt! We shoud prostrate oorsels afore Rembrandt an niver compare pnyane wi him!"<ref>[[Auguste Rodin|Rodin, Auguste]]: ''Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell''. (University of California Press, 1984, {{ISBN|0520038193}}), p. 85 [Translated by Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders]. Originally published as ''L'Art: Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell''. (Paris: [[:fr:Bernard Grasset (éditeur)|Bernard Grasset]], 1911)</ref> [[Francisco Goya]], eften conseedert tae be amang the last o the [[Auld Masters]], said "A hae haed three masters: Naitur, [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]], an Rembrandt."<ref>Protter, Eric: ''Painters on Painting''. (Dover Publications, 1971, {{ISBN|0486299414}} ), p. 98</ref> [[Vincent van Gogh]] wrote, "Rembrandt gaes sae deep intae the mysterious that he says things for that thare are na wirds in ony leid. It is wi juistice that thay cry Rembrandt—magician—that's na easy thrift."<ref>Wessels, Anton: ''Van Gogh and the Art of Living: The Gospel According to Vincent van Gogh''. (Wipf & Stock, 2013, {{ISBN|9781625641090}})</ref> The [[Impressionism|impressionist]] [[Max Liebermann]] said: "Whaniver I see a [[Frans Hals]], A feel lik pentin; whaniver A see a Rembrandt, A feel lik giein up"<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dánae - Mito, poder y erotismo en la pintura occidental|last=Molina Cortón|first=Juan|publisher=Cultiva Libros|year=2014|isbn=|location=Madrid, Spain|pages=Chap. IX|language=Spanish}}</ref>.

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [[Wolfgang Kosack]]: ''Ein zweiter Rembrandt: "Die Staalmeesters". Kunsthistorische Studie.'' Christoph Brunner, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-906206-14-1.

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