Rembrandt van Rijn Honored With Google Doodle

Rembrandt van Rijn Gets A Google Doodle. Painter Rembrandt van Rijn is the subject of today's worldwide Google doodle, as today marks what would have been his 407th birthday. Rembrandt was born on this day in 1606, The artist was born in 1606 and relocated to Amsterdam in 1631, where he set up a studio in the office of art dealer Hendrick van Uylenburgh, according to a biography from the Getty Museum. He became well-known for his portraits. "The core of RembrandtGoogle has used its search page doodle to celebrate the 407th anniversary of the birth, in Leyden, Holland, of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Click here or on 'view gallery' to see more images. Widely recognised as one of the greatest and most That Rembrandt, who took his first name as his artist's signature at 27-years-old, should be honored with a self-portrait is fitting: the artist

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