8220;The Blinding of Samson”If you look at “The Blinding of Samson you can almost feel the horror and see his pain as Samson is brutally stabbed in his eyes. Rembrandt suffered many tragedies in his marriage to Saskia. “Her first child, Rumbartus, was baptized on December 15, 1635 in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, and exactly two months later was buried in the Zuiderkerk. On July 22 1638, their daughter Cornelia was baptized and died within on August 14. A second daughter also named Cornelia after Rembrandt’s mother, was baptized on July 29, 1640 and hardly survived a Deitmaring 4month. Their last child, Titus, was baptized on September 22, 1641, and lived twenty-seven years. Saskia herself lived only a few months after the birth of their only surviving child. She died on June 14 1642.” (The new Encyclopedia Britannica 1974)Rembrandt is said to be the most influential and creative Dutch artist of his time. He was an excellent religious and mythological painter, just as well as a portrait painter, landscape painter, historical painter, nudes, and scenes of everyday life. He was a highly religious and intellectual man who was hard working. “Some scholars credit him with about 600 paintings, 300 etchings, and 1,400 drawings, though several of his paintings are now attributed o his students.” (The World Book Encyclopedia 1996) He also made over one hundred self-portraits. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn died October 4, 1669....
