| Wessels, Anton: Van Gogh and the Art of Living: The Gospel According to Vincent van Gogh | Translated from the French by Jacques de Caso and Patricia B |
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| : Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell | Until then, he had signed with a combination of initials or monograms |
, kept at the Amsterdam City Archives• This version of his first name, "Rembrandt" with a "d," first appeared in his signatures in 1633.
| Slive has a comprehensive biography, pp | , who did not sign with their first names, if at all |
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| in Simon van Leeuwen's Korte besgryving van het Lugdunum Batavorum nu Leyden, Leiden, 1672• Although we can only speculate, this change must have had a meaning for Rembrandt, which is generally interpreted as his wanting to be known by his first name like the great figures of the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo, Raphael etc |
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