Rembrandt van Rijn was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter celebrated for his mastery of light and shadow (chiaroscuro) and his psychologically penetrating portraits and self-portraits.
Rembrandt's innovations in oil painting — using impasto and dramatic chiaroscuro to convey psychological depth — elevated portraiture and history painting to their highest achievements in the Western tradition; his self-portraits constitute the most sustained study of an aging self in art history.
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