Title: More about the times of Rembrandt than about Rembrandt himself
Product review: This book's backjacket speaks about it as a biography of Rembrandt. But in fact it is a journal of the physician who attended Rembrandt's ill- first wife Saskia, and then continued in his relationship with Rembrandt. An ancestor of the author of the book, Dr. Van Loon tells us a great deal about the nitty-gritty of life in the Amsterdam of Rembrandt's time. It also gives a portrait of the artist not only in his overwhelming power but in his pathetic poverty- stricken last days. It is not really and exclusively a biography of Rembrandt, but it is an interesting read of the man and his times.
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