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Dutch art lovers celebrate Rembrandts 400th birthday
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| Art enthusiasts dressed up as the 17th-century nobles, priests, beggars and prostitutes portrayed in the paintings of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, honoring the 400th anniversary Saturday July 15 of his birth. Celebrations centered on the city of Leiden, where Rembrandt was born July 15, 1606. And also in Amsterdam, where he did his greatest work, suffered personal tragedies and died in 1669. A torch-lit procession in period costume gathered by a statue of Rembrandt shortly before midnight Friday in Leiden. Revelers toasted his memory, many with a drink of traditional Dutch jenever, or gin after the clock struck 12. And in Amsterdam Saturday night at the Royal Carre Theater opened an opera based on Rembrandts life. And also the city was site of a series of major exhibitions of Rembrandts work. |
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