Rijksmuseum to buy Rembrandt

I found this article particularly interesting because much like fine wine, great art appreciates in value throughout time. We may all be familiar with the great artist himself, but in case you are not I will aid, in part, to his introduction. Rembrandt is greatly accepted as one of the greatest European artists of all time but he is especially considered a favorite of the Dutch with whom he shares ethnicity. He produced over 600 paintings during his career, of which 100 were self-portraits. His paintings greatly depicted what he was most attuned to during a variety of periods in his life. Whether you are observing his deeply spiritual representations of a biblical scene, or his intensely reflective self-portraits, it is his undeniable charisma and talent that lead us to understand why someone would pay such a costly amount (£40 million in the article from which I was inspired) to acquire a Rembrandt of their own.

-Gia Valdez