Rembrandt"s eyes

The unsurpassed master of the popular historical story Simon Sham with the brilliance of a professional novelist and the scrupulousness of a professional historian creates a dynamic and voluminous image of the Netherlands of the 17th century, those times when a native of Leiden Rembrandt Van Rain, triumphantly demonstrating what heights is capable of Dutch painting, conquered the title for many centuries for many centuries The greatest of the painters. The few documented information about the life and professional activity of the artist are masterfully woven into the colorful fabric of an extensive and diverse historical context. The commercial turmoil and political intrigues, the confrontation of the Spanish Habsburgs and the Dutch Republic, Catholics and Protestants, the heyday of the democratic art of the Netherlands and the sparkling painting of the “artist of kings” Rubens - a seething, bizarre world, where the art of the New Age was born. The world, which has become the stage of life and work of Dutchman Rembrandt van Rhine, is an artist whose painting seems to triumph over reality