More Rembrandt

Even though this book says for kids it is pretty long.  I did learn Rembrandt lived in Amsterdam and Leiden.   His last name is Harmenzoon Van Rijn.  He was born in 1606 and died in 1669.  He was only 63 when he died.  He was pretty young.  I think people did not live as long back then though so he may have been pretty old for his time.  Rembrandt has 3 daughters named Cornelia, only one of which survived past infancy.  He had one son named Titus who survived.

Rembrandt mostly painted people and also a few scenes from the bible.  He was very good at using light in his paintings with shadowing to make them more real.

Onto chapter 3 tomorrow.  By the way, there are only 5 chapters and then we move onto another book.