Painting of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn “The Parable of the Rich”. The size of the painting is 32 x 42 cm, oil on canvas. Everything said on the previous pages about Rembrandt is rather contradictory. After all, the environment that determines the vital activity, the vital maturity of Rembrandt van Rijn, was itself created and re-created as a result of contradictory processes.
During the eighty-year liberation struggle of the Northern Netherlands against the Spanish-Habsburg absolutism, burghers, with favorable circumstances, simultaneously completed their first victorious revolution and founded the leading commercial power, the “exemplary capitalist nation” of the century, in the United Republic; This alliance, which was finally recognized at the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, already flourished during the twelve-year truce concluded in 1609, at the same time the social contradictions of the new historical reality arose.
Nevertheless, this Dutch society, mainly an unproductive middle-class society, thriving mainly at the expense of Europe and the overseas colonies, a society whose moral views obliged to moral simplicity, rigor and unquestioning subordination guaranteed a certain space for spiritual freedom.
This was used by crowds of refugees from oppression, terror and inquisition, who were looking for security here and strengthening the country’s economic power. “In what other country can you enjoy such wide freedom?” – these words of the Frenchman Descartes, expressed in 1631, expressed the opinion of many. In this new historical reality created and developed the work of the artist Rembrandt.
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