The book contains 100 key words that sum up Rembrandt (1606-1669), who was such an important figure in all branches of Dutch art "that no other painter of the period can compare with him" (Ernst H. Gombrich).
His incredibly life-like portraits emanate warmth, solitude and suffering; his engravings, his etchings, which enabled him to work more freely and more rapidly than with a chisel; the people who commissioned his work, Holland, his predecessors, such as Dürer, contemporary painters like Titian, his love for Saskia, the themes and the subjects of his paintings.