When the young Rembrandt arrives in Amsterdam in 1631, he is not only ambitious, but judging from his self-portraits of that period, brash and cocky, confident of his artistic power. Determined to prove that he was the equal of the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, recognized by all Europe as the greatest artist of the age, Rembrandt paints in Rubens’ Baroque style. But a decade later, Rembrandt realizes that despite the drama and theatrical lighting effects of Baroque art, characteristics he will retain, he needs to seek a deeper, more profound, art. In short, his unrelenting need for drama deepens as he moves toward the drama of the soul.
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