Rembrandt's Final Confession

In 1668, in a cramped Amsterdam apartment, a bankrupt old painter picked up his brush one last time. Rembrandt van Rijn had once been the toast of the Dutch Republic — wealthy, celebrated, living in a grand house on the Sint Anthonisbreestraat. But decades of reckless spending, failed investments, and personal tragedy had stripped him bare. His wife Saskia died young.…