This feature explores some of Rembrandt's key paintings in more detail, and asks what you think.

How do these pictures communicate ideas and emotions? What do they tell you about the artist and the important people in his life? And what do you make of them 400 years after Rembrandt was born?

Rembrandt made this self portrait in 1640, when he was 34 years old. What sense of him do you get from this painting? What do you make of his eyes, mouth and body language here?

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