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Rembrandt and his Leiden school painted with the “patience of saints, and the industry of ants” in order to “take the illusionistic depiction of objects to their furthest extremes.” This self-portrait is an example, done in 1629. (Wetering, P 160)
Rembrandt and his Leiden school painted with the “patience of saints, and the industry of ants” in order to “take the illusionistic depiction of objects to their furthest extremes.” This self-portrait is an example, done in 1629. (Wetering, P 160)