Excerpt from RembrandtAt the Hermitage in St. Petersburg I was specially privileged - I was allowed to study these priceless works with the glass off and in moments of bright sunlight - to see those sweeps of rich colour, so full, so clear, so transparent, and broken in places, allowing the undertones to show through.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.