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Rembrandt quiz

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Whose face did Rembrandt paint more than 40 times?

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  1. 1 Easy

    Where was Rembrandt born?

    Answer: Leiden

    Why: He settled in Amsterdam only in 1631, in his mid-twenties, and stayed there for life.

  2. 2 Medium

    Where in Amsterdam was the house Rembrandt bought in 1639?

    Answer: The Jewish Quarter

    Why: His end of the street later took the name Jodenbreestraat, Dutch for Jewish Broad Street.

  3. 3 Hard

    What hangs from the glowing girl's belt in The Night Watch?

    Answer: A dead chicken

    Why: Its claws stand for the golden claw on the coat of arms of the Kloveniers, the arquebusier militia in the painting.

  4. 4 Easy

    Which Italian word names Rembrandt's light-dark contrast?

    Answer: Chiaroscuro

    Why: Chiaroscuro joins chiaro, light, and scuro, dark; sfumato, Leonardo's soft haze, means vanishing like smoke.

  5. 5 Medium

    What animal's carcass hangs in Rembrandt's 1655 Louvre painting?

    Answer: An ox

    Why: Chaim Soutine admired it in the Louvre and later painted his own series of beef carcasses.

  6. 6 Hard

    Which 'Rembrandt' was found in the 1980s to be by another painter?

    Answer: The Man with the Golden Helmet

    Why: Berlin's Gemäldegalerie now credits it to an unknown painter working in Rembrandt's circle.

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