Rembrandt, 1660, Brought To Life (Real Face & Life Facts) #Video

Rembrandt self-portrait painting, 1660. For a more realistic viewing experience, the Face of Rembrandt has been improved and animated using Photoshop and AI techniques.

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669, aged 63), was a Dutch painter and printmaker who was known for his exceptional portraits, self-portraits and biblical scenes, as well as his innovative use of shadow and light, making him one of the greatest painters in the history of art. Before we bring him to life, let's learn first a few interesting facts about Rembrandt!
- Unlike many painters of his time, Rembrandt did not come from a family of artists or craftsmen; his father, was a miller, while his mother, came from a family of bakers.
- Without a doubt, "The Night Watch" is the most famous of all Rembrandt’s paintings, showing a group portrait of a militia company. It has three distinctions: its colossal size (12 by 14 and a half feet), the dramatic use of light and shadow and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military group portrait.
- Connoisseurs in the early 20th century asserted that Rembrandt created well over 600 paintings, close to 400 etchings, and 2,000 drawings. However, his body of work has been reduced to roughly 300 paintings by a more modern scholarship, led by the Rembrandt Research Project, conducted from the 1960s to the present day.
- Rembrandt's self-portraits form an intimate autobiography. The exact number of his self-portraits is unknown, but scholars have attributed at least 40 and as many as 90 authentic self-portraits by his hand.
- Rembrandt married Saskia in 1634 and they had four children, only one of them (Titus) survived into adulthood. Saskia died in 1642 soon after Titus's birth, probably from tuberculosis. Rembrandt's drawings of her on her death bed are among his most moving works. In the late 1640s Rembrandt began a relationship with the much younger Hendrickje Stoffels, who had initially been his maid. In 1654 they had a daughter named Cornelia.
- Despite his commercial and financial success, Rembrandt had squandered all of his money by the late 1640s, was unable to pay his mortgage, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. He disposed of his printing press, along with a number of his collection's artefacts and paintings. He downsized his family's home and never recovered financially, ultimately passing away in abject poverty.
- Rembrandt died in 1669 in Amsterdam, aged 63. The cause of his death is unknown. His daughter, Cornelia was Rembrandt’s only living immediate family member at the time of his death.