
                      My favorite painter
     One of my favorite artists is Rembrant is the greatest Dutch
master, one  of  the  supreme geneuses in the history of art.  To
this day the art of Rembrant remains one  of  the  most  profound
witness of  the  progress  of the soul in it's earthly pilgrimage
towards the  realisation  of  higher  destiny.  The  son  of  the
prosperous miller,  Rembrant  was  born  in  Leiden  in 1608.  He
studied at Leiden University, but his real vocation was painting.
His rapid sugsess promoted him to move to the Amsterdam in 1631.
   In 1632 Rembrant bought a splendid house, started a collection
of paintings  and rarities.  The universal artist dealt with many
world subjects.  Rembrant created a number of portraits and  some
group portraits which were traditional to the Dutch art. The best
of them are "Anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp" and "The night watch".
     In 1655  Rembrant  found  himself  in  the  midst of several
financial troubles. At that period he painted "The Polish Rider",
which is an allegory of the man's earthly journey.
     Probably in 1669,  the  year  of  his  own  death,  Rembrant
painted his  famous "Return of the Prological son",  which stands
at the ultimate peak of Cristian spirituality,  illuminating  the
relationship of the self to the eternity.
    The biblical theme was very important to Rembrant. He painted
"Artakserks, Oman and Eshpir", "The Saint Family".
     Rembrant was not understood when he was alive.  He  died  in
poverty. But it is the spirituality of his art that distinguishes
Rembrant from his Dutch contemporaries making  him  the  greatest
artist of the world.
