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Rembrandt van Rijn is present on January 16 at an anatomy lecture of the physician Nicolaes Tulp, in this autopsied the body of the executed highwayman Adriaan Adriaanszoon. During the year, he completed the painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp. In mediation Constantijn Huygens Rembrandt receives in the same year by Governor Frederick Henry a contract for a " Passion of Christ ", which was originally intended to include the five images Raising of the Cross, the Cross, burial, resurrection and ascension.

The Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens painted 1632 picture The Garden of Love. In the painted with oil on canvas painting that is not a commissioned work, seems to have immortalized several times Rubens and his second wife, Helene Fourment.

The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck moved to London, where he works as court painter and outstanding portraitist for Charles I.. In the same year it rises the king to the nobility.

Born

  • Wang Hui, Chinese painter of the Qing Dynasty and a supporter of conservative, imitating the old masters, the so-called " orthodox school " († 1717)
  • 1632: Jan Wijnants, Dutch painter († 1684)

Died

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