Rembrandt & Shah Jahan: contemporaries

Dutch painter Rembrandt lived from 1606 to 1669. He was more or less a contemporary of Shah Jahan (1592-1666), the fifth Mughal emperor. During his reign the Mughals reached the peak of their cultural glory.

Although Rembrandt is most famous for his oil paintings, I am a bigger fan of his etchings and drawings. In his later career, when he was at a finan…