Monday, July 15, 2013

Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th Birthday

The doodle found on Google's homepage today celebrates the 407th birthday of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, a Dutch painter and etcher who was generally considered to be an important figure in the European art and Dutch history. However, despite being hailed as such, it seems that his life was sort of a downhill ride whereby the height of his success was during his youthful days and things just went downwards ever since.

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