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Jan Emmens

Dutch art historian

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Rembrandt

  • Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
    In Rembrandt: The myth of Rembrandt’s fall

    As art historian Jan Emmens argued in his book Rembrandt and the Rules of Art, the formation of this myth owes much to a standard biographical model that might be called the “Saul-Paul model”—according to which the subject’s life suddenly undergoes a radical change in direction as the…

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