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Script Rembrandt van Rijn was born on July 15, 1609 in Leiden, Netherlands and died on October 4, 1669. Van Rijn was known as one of the greatest storytellers of art. Van Rijn was a print maker, etcher, and painter. He enrolled in Leiden University to study painting, and later studied under the famous painter, Jacob van Swanenburgh, who influenced Van Rijn in his use of historical and religious themes in his paintings. Rembrandt van Rijn's paint style was intended to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt's tactics included the use of light and shade which van Swanenburgh taught him to do. He used a lot of perspective and added to the illusion with realistic shading and lighting that made the painting or etch look almost real. He used a realism that made his paintings seem as if he liked ugliness, rather than beauty. His works were both secular and Christian based. This made his works seem both Baroque and Renaissance. Rembrandt gave his best efforts every time he created any type of work. His paintings were on vulgar and indecorous topics, such as tragedies of the bible, and death. Rembrandt painted mainly portraits of nobles and himself during his early career. This resulted in him having a good relationship with the nobles who purchased lot of his works. He also became famous for his etches. Later in Rembrandt's career, he began putting his face in his portraits. His themes evolved into using biblical, historical, mythological, and allegorical themes. Rembrandt discovered the use of pen, ink, and chalk in his etches, which he used for shading. His depiction of space and light, and color and form became a famous signature of Rembrandt and showed a change in his form. His line and tone display transformation in a single drawing. In the majority of his paintings, he would tell a story in his paintings such as 'Night Watch' (1642), which depicts the troop leader, Frans Banning Cocq, of a company in the Netherlands, going to fight a battle. Around the mid 17th century, at the height of his career, Rembrandt was internationally known for his famous works and was known for his magnificent portraits and etchings. He went bankrupt toward the end of his career because of his excessive spending on luxury items; however, he was able to pay off his debts with the proceedings from his paintings before his death. During Rembrandt's career, he created over 600 beautiful paintings, 300 etchings, and 2,000 drawings that can be viewed in various museums all over the world. Rembrandt's most famous works are Man in the Golden Helmet (1650), The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), Descent From the Cross (1633), Blinding of Samson (1636), The Three Crosses (1653), and The Sacrifice of Abraham (1635). Rembrandt was known as one of the best and most famous painters of his time. Van Rijn proved himself to be a master of the baroque style, with his depiction of light, religious themes, and the emotion of his characters in his paintings. Rembrandt received much fame, praise and money for his works, particularly from the nobles who purchased many of his works. Rembrandt will always be remembered for his creative works and successes attained during not only his life time, but for all-time.

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Rembrandt van Rijn was born on July 15, 1609 in Leiden, Netherlands and died on October 4, 1669. Van Rijn was known as one of the greatest storytellers of art by having a lot of action going along into his works. Van Rijn was a print maker, etcher, and painter. He enrolled into Leiden University to study painting__.__ He then left to study under the famous painter, Jacob van Swanenburgh. Van Swanenburgh was the reason that Van Rijn uses historical and religious themes in his paintings. Soon after he was taught under Van Swanenburgh, Rembrandt went on his way to make a popular name for himself__.__ Rembrandt van Rijn's paint style was intended to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt's tactics used light and shade which van Swanenburgh taught him to do. He used a lot of perspective and he added to that illusion with realistic shading and lighting that made the painting or etch look almost real. He used a realism that made it seem as if he liked ugliness, rather than beauty. His works both were secular and Christian based. This made his works seem both Baroque and Renaissance. Rembrandt gave his best efforts every time he created any type of work. His paintings were on vulgar and indecorous topics, such as tragedies of the bible, and death.

Early in Rembrandts career, he painted mainly portraits of nobles and himself. This was the beginning of giving himself a good reputation with nobles. He was also becoming famous for his etches. Nobles began to purchase a lot of Rembrandt's works.

Later in Rembrandt's career, he began to put himself in his work, such as putting his faces in portraits. He evolved to use biblical, historical, mythological, and allegorical history themes. Rembrandt discovered the uses of pen, ink, or chalk, which he had used for shading when he made his etches. His depiction of space and light, and color and form became a famous signature of Rembrandt and showed a change in his form. His line and tone displays transformation in a single drawing. In the majority of his paintings, he would show a story in his paintings such as 'Night Watch' (1642). In Night Watch, he depicts the leader of a company in the Netherlands, Frans Banning Cocq, leading out his troops to fight.

At the height of Rembrandt's career, at around the mid 17th century, Rembrandt was internationally known for his famous works. Rembrandt had reached a good reputation of being magnificent at making portraits, self portraits, and etchings. As he was nearing the end of his career, he went bankrupt. He got too greedy when he bought luxury items, starting with his house. He painted his debts off in his later years before his death in 1669.

In Rembrandt's career, he had created over 600 beautiful paintings, 300 etchings, and 2,000 drawings that can be viewed in various museums all over the world. Rembrandt's most famous works are: Rembrandt was known as one of the best and most famous painters of his time. Van Rijn had proved himself to be a master of the baroque style, with his depiction of light, religious themes, and the emotion of his characters in his paintings. Rembrandt received much praise from his works, such as money, and fame from the nobles who had purchased his works. Rembrandt was successful in building fame, not just for his time period, but for all-time.
 * 1) **Man in the Golden Helmet (1650)** - An oil canvas that displays a portrait of a general or soldier who wears an old golden helmet on his head. This painting is still being bought by people all over the world, and is one of the most famous paintings he has ever created.
 * 2) **The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633)** - An oil canvas that displays Jesus and his disciples on a ship that is sinking on the Sea of Galilee. You can see many trying to control ... ship, as others are asking Jesus for assistance.
 * 3) **Descent From the Cross (1633)** - An oil canvas painting of Joseph assisting Jesus down the cross, Rembrandt include himself into this painting.
 * 4) **Blinding of Samson (1636)** - An oil canvas painting of Samson being overwhelmed by the Philistines, and one of the soldiers is thrusting a sword into the eye of Samson. This was a prime example of paintings in the baroque period. Rembrandt uses a lot of compare and contrast of lighting and uses a biblical theme that has to do with death.
 * 5) **The Three Crosses (1653)** - An etching of Jesus nailed on the cross at the moment of his death, the two convicted criminals to his side, and a watching crowd. The light is focused on Christ as he is suffering.
 * 6) **The Sacrifice of Abraham (1635)** - An oil canvas painting of Abraham's arm being pinned as he is about to sacrifice his first son.

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