| Style | Baroque |
| Lived | July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669 ( 17th century ) |
| Nationality | The Netherlands |
| Biography |
Rembrandt Biography |
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Rembrandt prints and posters |
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| Paintings |
Perhaps best known if Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch'. Other works include such titles as 'The Return of the Prodigal Son', 'The Mill', 'Storm on the Sea of Galilee' and 'Philosopher Reading'.
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| Quote | "Choose only one master - Nature."
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| Interesting |
In an article published on September 16, 2004 in The New England Journal of Medicine, Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of neurobiology of Harvard Medical School, suggests that Rembrandt, whose eyes failed to align correctly, suffered from stereo blindness. She made this conclusion after studying 36 of Rembrandt's self-portraits.
Because he could not form a normal binocular vision, his brain automatically switched to one eye for many visual tasks. This disability could have helped him to flatten images as he saw, and then put it onto the two-dimensional canvas. In the author's words, this could have been a gift to a great painter like him:
Art teachers often instruct students to close one eye in order to flatten what they see. Therefore, stereo blindness might not be a handicap — and might even be an asset — for some artists.
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| Links |
Rembrandt Research Project
The Rembrandt House Museum
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