Current Affairs Speculation over Rembrandt painting: is the old man Jan Amos Comenius?

07-04-2006 14:45 | Daniela Lazarová

Millions of people have admired it at the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence. Now, Rembrandt's painting of an old man has acquired a new significance for Czechs. According to Ernst van de Wetering, a Dutch art specialist, the anonymous old man in the painting is almost certainly one of the most prominent figures in Czech history - the teacher of nations Jan Amos Comenius.

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