Young Rembrandt: A Biography
Blom, Onno / Jackson, Beverley Like Shakespeare, Rembrandt van Rijn left us a world rich with his work but with few clues about his enigmatic life. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become arguably the greatest artist of his age?
To find out, Dutch writer Onno Blom immersed himself in Leiden, the city in which Rembrandt was born in 1606 and where he spent his first twenty-five years. The result is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man, rich i...