Rembrandt Von Rijn

Rembrandt, great genius of Dutch art, was also stimulated at the beginning of his career by indirect contact with Caravaggio. His earliest pictures are small, sharply lit and intensely realistic. Ten years later he developed a full-blown High Baroque style. In his later years, Rembrandt often adapted, in a highly personal way, compositions or pictorial ideas from the Northern Renaissance. The Return of the Prodigal Son, painted a few years before his death, is perhaps Rembrandt's most moving religious picture.