The Golden Age of Europe: Northern Europe: Northern Europe

Author: Chen Xuezhen
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: With more students, he rented a warehouse to provide accommodation. He partitioned the large house with paper and canvas into smaller rooms, allowing students to paint with less disturbance. Later, what happened might have made him regret dividing the space. On a hot summer afternoon, he arrived at the studio and found students peeking through the wall cracks, laughing with delight. It turned out that a mischievous young man had taken off his clothes while drawing a female nude, obviously intending to join the model. The teacher's sudden appearance left the students speechless. The mischievous student broke the silence. He said, "Now we've become Adam and Eve of the Garden of Eden." Rembrandt immediately struck the wall with his cane and shouted, "Because you are naked, you must leave the Garden of Eden." Then he rushed into the room, chasing the pair out of the studio. The two young people realized the situation was bad and quickly dressed, but Rembrandt kept chasing them down the stairs until they reached the street. The Golden Age of Europe·Northern Europe is one of the world history series Living in Distant Times published by Time-Life Books. This volume describes the amusing anecdotes of the Dutch master painter Rembrandt and tells many equally captivating stories. As you turn the pages, it feels as if you have stepped into the 16th and 17th centuries of German and the Netherlands, among the real men and women of that time. Following in their footsteps, we arrive at a brilliant era later known as the Northern Renaissance. Through letters, memoirs, notes, church documents, government records, and other historical sources, this book tells the intricate stories of that great age, including the great religious reformation, the uprisings of the Protestants, and also portrays the blossoming of society, economy, and culture in the Dutch Republic, that budding tree of the Netherlands.