Born in 1606, the son of a miller, Rembrandt Harmenez van Rijn is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. This book has 48 Rembrandt’s paintings taken from collections throughout Europe and reporduced in full colour. They constitutes the nucleus of themes around which this extraordinary artist created such and impressive oeuvre self-portraits, portraits of men, women and children, group commissions such as the Night Watch and Syndics of the Clothworkers Guilds, and his most famous religious and genre paintins
