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Palettes. The mirror of paradoxes self-portraits, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), the Louvre Museum, Paris

'Even in his first paintings, Rembrandt positioned himself in the scene. In the following years, Rembrandt painted at least one hundred self-portraits in engravings, drawings and paintings...such singlemindedness, unique in the history of art, was very widely interpreted'. This program explores the technical difficulties encountered in the self-portrait, the inspiration for Rembrandt's art, and in a larger context, the significance of Rembrandt's self-portraits in relation to the social changes occurring in Europe at the time.

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