Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Rembrandt van Rijn
(1606-1669)
 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art. It is estimated Rembrandt produced a total of about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and two thousand drawings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

Flora (Saskia as Flora)
1634
Oil on canvas
125 x 101 cm
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/43371/

Flora reflects Rembrandt’s mood in the happiest period in his life, soon after his move from Leyden to Amsterdam. Fortune was smiling on the artist, his fame was growing, he was young, in love and had just celebrated his marriage to Saskia van Uylenburgh.
His life was blooming: it is no coincidence that the image of Flora, the ancient goddess of spring and flowers, appeared in Rembrandt’s paintings and drawings of this period and the artist invariably invested her with the features of his young wife.

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