Rembrandt: not just an artist but the embodiment of his country’s spirit

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Elsje Christiaens Hanging on a Gibbet: in 1664 Rembrandt walked to Amsterdam’s gallows field to sketch the corpse of Elsje Christiaens, an 18-year-old Danish woman who had killed her landlady in a dispute over rent. Elsje was first strangled, then hung from a gibbet as a lesson to potential criminals. The hatchet with which she hit her landlady hangs beside her. Photograph: Moma New York/Rijksmuseum

Sat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00

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