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Portrait 1668 - Rembrandt van Rijn

Self

, 1668

Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 65 cm

Rembrandt van Rijn, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Cologne)

Rembrandt

For each table is a new experiment and a process of evolution itself of a restless mind. We left an unusual amount of self-portraits, on 70 -, and there is no explanation in a cause of economic instability where he could not pay models, even at the stage where he was without money, because we have the precedent of previous period. Rembrandt show us a young man, middle age, and higher in the last stage, and also are not just a temporary witness, but it appears with the various expressions and gestures, are also a searching, almost psychological .. This shows his great interest in experimenting and finding new techniques to incorporate into his painting. Rembrandt is one of those unique artists that create a fascination for the effect of their works, also unique in the history of art.

This table Rembrandt achieved a meeting with the viewer. And here I'll talk a little bit of some relevant facts of his life. He was a painter who lived far from the world even knew Italy, unlike other artists, after learning at Leyden, he lived in Amsterdam the rest of his life. In an era of economic prosperity and success came to him a personal economic crisis following the death of his wife Saskia. From here the debts and borrowing are constant, even to its collections and auction house, although this is not allowed to fully repay their debts. But his later years he would reserve some tragedies, five years before this portrait Hendrickje his partner dies, and dies the same year his son Titus, who had reached the age of three years earlier, only one of his four children caught up . This is when we leave, in my point of view-that is the most mysterious portrait, great and full of humanity from all painted. The encounter with the observer is palpable, Sorry Rembrandt in the canvas itself, and beyond, we look directly, but not the front, we know of our presence, and communicates with us. That smile and that gesture of complicity, it's the last laugh after all I lived, and despite it. A fruit that only age can. About Todome Rembrandt again, and at the end of his life, makes us think again before his works. Why are you smiling?

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 -1669) Dutch artist, a master of Baroque, and the greatest of painters, buried in an unmarked grave.