Rembrandt

Now, this, I thought was interesting. I was at the library last night doing some research for my art paper when I stumbled upon this interesting little tidbit in a book called The World of Rembrandt. Rembrandt (famous artist, in case you don't know) "professed the religion of the Menisti." Now that's a familiar dutch word, yes? For those of you who don't know, it means Mennonites.

To quote further from the book, "There is no evidence that he joined the sect: its members would not have approved of his love of rich costume and his taste for the romantic, and they would have been disturbed even more than the Calvinists by his domestic affairs. But his strongest spiritual affinity in his later years was with the Mennonites. [...] Whether because of the Mennonite influence or his own deepening conceptions or both, Rembrandt painted no fewer than 11 "portraits" of Christ in the years between 1648 and 1661."

Just an FYI tidbit.