Rembrandt is the greatest. Everyone keeps saying that. But what makes him great? In a nutshell: genius skills, artistic fierceness, original approach.

De Hooch have had a rare capability of grasping silence in his canvas.

Great Renaissance masters have portrayed in that way Virgin Mary. Is madame Monet reinvented by her husband as a real-life Madonna?

He once said he has come too early. But better to say, he came before others.