• crypticthree@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dude you don’t refer to Rembrandt Peale as just Rembrandt, because Rembrandt Van Rijn already was considered an old master before Peale was born.

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      1 year ago

      I definitely thought “hmm, this one feels very out of character for Rembrandt” but would never have thought there were any other painters with that name—thank you for pointing this out!

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        1 year ago

        Here’s a fun fact, Caravaggio is not his name, it’s the town he’s from. We call him that because his full name is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.