at 25 he left his hometown leyden and moved to amsterdam at the time a floor shing center of trade citizens used their newfound wealth to commission portraits of themselves and rembrandt was in huge demand he lived in this house for nearly 20 years today around $280000.00 visitors pass through the museum each year . so this is rembrandt studio this is actually the place where many of his masterpieces were in may and here we see a lovely corner where we can see how he worked with light and here he has a cloth hanging in this cloth softens the light so it filters sunlight coming in rembrandt's genius extended to printmaking as well he generally made his ad showing some self using the method demonstrated to visitors of the rambler and house museum good money could be made from print series in those days even so at the end of his life rembrandt was destitute you lived in a grand style and he also did not always pay his debts so part in part this collection was a part of his bankruptcy and had to be sold during his lifetime his house and possessions were also sold off you moved to a poor neighbo

you find out how rembrandt thought which decisions he made and that was not a genocide on affairs leyden rembrandt's hometown lies about 40 kilometers south of amsterdam. he was born here in 1606 his parents' house no longer stands. his father's mill as a replica. but the latin school young rembrandt attended still exists. in just around the corner so does the studio where he learned to paint. a playful video tells the story of his life 17th century students of painting had to learn several genres such as landscape and history painting and portraits. even as a boy rembrandt made portraits of himself he may have been honing his particular talent capturing emotions. gliding was a liberal university town had achieved prosperity through weaving and trading in class many artists lived here. i think he must've been very driven a very driven personality intellectual personality he wanted to become famous so he was very ambitious and. and nothing could stand in his way to become the most famous painter i think it was already in his must have been in his head when he was a small boy. at 25 he mov