Word: uylenburgh
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...collected from private gifts two-thirds of the purchase price, which gives it full possession. By order of the mayor, this week is "Rembrandt for Denver Week." The painting was done around 1632, one year after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. He took lodgings with a gentleman named Hendrick van Uylenburgh, whose orphaned young cousin Saskia charmed him. Saskia was of patrician background (her father had been a burgomaster), but the miller's son from Leiden successfully wooed her, and the two were married in 1634. Rembrandt painted Saskia several times, often in the role of a mythological heroine...
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