Pascal Bonafoux

L_____13 Rembrandt van Rijn, son of Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn and Neeltge Willemsdr van Suydtbroek, was born in Leiden on 15 July 1606. Johannes Orlers records the fact in a guide to the wonders of Leiden published in 1641. It is the only documentary evidence of the artist's date of birth: we...

13 T^he inhabitants of the presbytery in X Groot-Zundert, the Netherlands, spent 30 March 1853 in fervent prayer. Anna Corneha Carbentus, the wife of the pastor, Theodoras van Gogh, was about to go into labour. On that same date one year earlier, she lad given birth to a stillborn child, Vincent...