Rembrandt Geocoin

Meet Rembrandt and let him travel along to inspiring places. As an artist Rembrandt needs lots of inspiration for his magnificent pieces of art. We like him to travel around around the world and when back near the Amsterdam chanals we'll take him home..curious about his adventures we would love to see some pixels as well. Feel free to apply the famous Rembrandt light :) 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter. Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called "one of the great prophets of civilization. Night watch Rembrandt painted The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq between 1640 and 1642. This picture was called the Nachtwacht by the Dutch and the Night Watch by Sir Joshua Reynolds because by the 18th century the picture was so dimmed and defaced by time that it was almost indistinguishable and it looked quite like a night scene. After it was cleaned, it was discovered to represent broad day—a party of musketeers stepping from a gloomy courtyard into the blinding sunlight. The piece was commissioned for the new hall of the Kloveniersdoelen, the musketeer branch of the civic militia. Rembrandt departed from convention, which ordered that such genre pieces should be stately and formal, rather a line-up than an action scene. Instead he showed the militia readying themselves to embark on a mission.The painting is now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Wikipedia)