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The most poignant and honest portrait painter of all time, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) was Holland"s most celebrated painter Reveals how he understood the artistic potential of Amsterdam, the leading city of the newly independent Dutch Republic and the centre of a global trade empire Based on the latest Rembrandt research, by one of the leading scholars of Netherlandish art Demonstrates how a contextual study can stimulate the reader"s delight in the art itself