Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . PEN DRAWING. (Duke of Devonshires Collection.) CHAPTER I. LEYDEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY—THE BIRTH OFREMBRANDT—HIS FAMILY—HIS STUDIES AND AMUSEMENTS—THE UNIVERSITY OFLEYDEN—EDUCATION AND MANNERS OF THE PERIOD—WORKS OF ART IN THETOWN-HALL—PRECOCITY OF REMBRANDTS GENIUS—HIS MASTERS, J. VAN SWANEN-BURCH AT LEYDEN, AND P. LASTMAN AT AMSTERDAM—HIS RETURN TO c EYDEN had gradually recoveredstrength after the ordeal of thatdouble siege (1573—1574) inwhich she had successfully defied theSpaniard. By the beginning of theseventeent
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . PEN DRAWING. (Duke of Devonshires Collection.) CHAPTER I. LEYDEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY—THE BIRTH OFREMBRANDT—HIS FAMILY—HIS STUDIES AND AMUSEMENTS—THE UNIVERSITY OFLEYDEN—EDUCATION AND MANNERS OF THE PERIOD—WORKS OF ART IN THETOWN-HALL—PRECOCITY OF REMBRANDTS GENIUS—HIS MASTERS, J. VAN SWANEN-BURCH AT LEYDEN, AND P. LASTMAN AT AMSTERDAM—HIS RETURN TO c EYDEN had gradually recoveredstrength after the ordeal of thatdouble siege (1573—1574) inwhich she had successfully defied theSpaniard. By the beginning of theseventeenth century few visible tokensremained of the ruin and desolationwrought by the war of ancient city, clustering about hervenerable Burg, and girdled by smilingvillages, expanded freely along the twoarms of the Rhine, which, unitinghere, lose themselves a little farther in the sandy the development of her commerce, she had regained some-thing of her earlier splendour. For generations the residenceof the Counts of Holland, Leyden was, and is to this day, theseat of the Rynland, a species of syndicate, formed for the controland regulation of the waters, in the heart of the land most exposed VOL. T. B REMBRANDT S (B. 354). 2 REMBRANDT to their ravages. Her cathedral church, dedicated to St. Peter,a vast five-aisled basilica of the early fourteenth century, hadescaped the destructio
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