Episode Synopsis "6. Rembrandt van Rijn"

When you really love yourself and you think you're incredibly beautiful, why not paint yourself over and over and over? That's  exactly what Rembrandt did. In fact, he painted almost 100 self-portraits in his lifetime! In this episode, we'll talk about Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest artist of the Dutch Golden Age, and the original "selfie-taker," as well as one of his most famous works, The Night Watch.

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• 25 . Vincent van Gogh
• 24. Paul Cézanne
• 23. Mary Cassatt
• 22. Berthe Morisot
• 21. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• 20. Claude Monet
• 19. Edgar Degas
• 18. Édouard Manet
• 17. John Everett Millais
• 16. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• 15. Henry Osawwa Tanner
• 14. Jean-Francois Millet
• 13. JMW Turner
• 12. Francisco de Goya
• 11. Angelica Kauffman
• 10. Jacques-Louis David
• 9. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• 8. Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
• 7. Johannes Vermeer
• 6. Rembrandt van Rijn
• 5. Albrecht Dürer
• 4. Raphael
• 3. Michelangelo
• 2. Leonardo da Vinci
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