Today’s Google Doodle offers a helpful reminder that on this day 407 years ago, there was born in the Netherlands a man who would modernize art, make it accessible, and who would create a body of work so
real, so life-like, that it’s now the standard against which all other paintings are measured.
I won’t belabor this point with a lot of words. I’ll suffice by saying that although I do enjoy art in almost all its presentations (I did marry into that world, after all), there’s 
only one artist who I keep on my desk, within easy reach, for some Dutch Master eye-candy whenever I need it.
So cease with the words, and let’s see some art. And let’s spare a kind thought today for the ma and pa of Rembrandt van Rijn, who sometime in late 1605 were kind enough to do the necessary to make for us an artist for the ages.
