Alan Riding takes New York Times’ readers on a walk “among the shadows of Rembrandt’s life in Amsterdam.”
“Strolling beside Amsterdam's oldest canals, where buildings carry dates like 1541 and 1603, it is easy to imagine the city's prosperity in the 17th century. Replace today's bicycles and cars with horse-drawn carts, add more barges on the waterways, and this is essentially how Amsterdam must have looked to Rembrandt as he did his rounds of wealthy merchants.” -- from “Walking Among the Shadows of Rembrandt’s Life in Amsterdam,” by Alan Riding, New York Times
