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|title=Van Rijn

|author=Sarah Miano

|date=March 2007

|isbn=978-0330411813

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The Van Rijn of the title is, of course, Rembrandt. This novel is an attempt to give us a flavour of the man. Flavour is apt here, because, at its best, the book vividly evokes the smells and tastes of 17th century Amsterdam. The difficulty faced by the author, Sarah Emily Miano, was that Rembrandt left very little written evidence of his life. So she is forced to compose, through imagination and obvious (sometimes too obvious) research, a fragmentary portrait of the man behind the paintings.