it's a painting that every child in the netherlands knows but it's here and numsa down that rembrandt makes another master painting diego velazquez. coming from this concept can we do it the concept is that we've always put together a judge and a spanish picture so we've always made a pass and then we see what happens when they sing be visually to each other and lo and behold the connections between the 2 which emerge because of these parallels on a deeper level moving from being a senior. lived in staunchly catholic spain in the service of the king rembrandt lived in the dutch republic where citizens had a say they never crossed paths. in their lifetime and all the countries were war with each other the old masters shared similarities they have never seen a self-portrait where the eyebrows are raised as high as in this painting by rembrandt he poses a question to the audience and it's certainly directed at us who am i what's the role that i play then when i look to the other side to the last close he painted a portrait of a very small man on community phillips to these tiny men with