"The central problem of Western civilization is reduced to one guy who’s got to puzzle it out for himself."
Curator Walter Liedtke on "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer" by Rembrandt.
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"The central problem of Western civilization is reduced to one guy who’s got to puzzle it out for himself."
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Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
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