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Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul by Rembrandt
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Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul, 1661

Rembrandt

An older Rembrandt studies himself with the same unsparing eye he gave his sitters.

Rembrandt casts himself as the Apostle Paul, sword hidden in his robe, meeting our gaze with searching, weary honesty. In his late self-portraits he mined his own aging face for the whole depth of human character — unsparing, warm and profound.

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