419 years ago today, July 15, 1606 (June 11, 1606 in the lunar calendar), Dutch painter Rembrandt was born. Rembrandt (1606~1669) was one of the greatest European painters of the 17th century and the greatest painter in Dutch history. Born in Leiden on July 15, 1606, and died on October 4, 1669 in Amsterdam. Rembrandt entered Leiden University at the age of 14; at the age of 17, he went to Amsterdam to learn painting from the historical painter Rastman; In 1627, at the age of 21, he had basically mastered the skills of oil painting, sketching and etching and developed his own style. He returned to his hometown and opened his own studio to recruit apprentices to paint, during which time he painted many self-portraits; in 1631, he left Leiden for Amsterdam, and became the main portrait painter in Amsterdam in the 1930s. His portrait style and character arrangements are dramatic and deeply touching, and his works based on mythological and religious stories are in short supply. His paintings have a wide variety of genres, and are good at portraits, landscape paintings, genre paintings, religious paintings, historical paintings, etc. The self-portrait works of the Leiden period (circa 1625 - 1631) adopt strong contrast of chiaroscuro and use light to shape the body. The pictures are rich in layers and dramatic. The picture shows his self-portrait in 1629