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Word: harmenszoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...17th Century better than the 20th"), Van Loon long planned a life of Rembrandt, whom he considers greatest Dutchman of his time. This is it. Written in the form of the diary of Van Loon's mythical great-great-great-grandfather, an Amsterdam physician, great & good friend of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the book is a voluminous (570 pages), discursive, far-from-formal narrative in which Rembrandt is a major figure but the great-great-great-grandfather the hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forsyte Footnotes* | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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