Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait poster

Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait( 1954)

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Paintings and etchings of Rembrandt are used in revealing his life and career. Describes Rembrandt's early success as a fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam and explains how his uncompromising devotion to realism cost him his reputation. Discusses the many personal disappointments of Rembrandt's later years, including failure of his contemporaries to acclaim his greatest masterpieces.

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Feb 09 2024
    Did you know that Rembrandt was his Christian name, or that the face he painted most throughout his life was his own? Well we see many of them here as the narration tells us of an unacademic man. The son of a miller, he lived an happily bucolic life content to spend his days painting his parents and drawing his home. An apprenticeship followed then by the age of 20, he had his own studio and was producing works of art that would ultimately fund his residency, aged 25, in Amsterdam. There he arrived just as the Dutch were starting to trade globally; it's merchant classes now giving him an opport...

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