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Rembrandt: A Master in the Studio. S. Alpers. How are we to explain the effect of singularity and individuality given off by apainting such as Rembrandt's Jewish Bride ? It has become the custom to begin with a meditation on the meaning of the picture. But let us consider instead how the picture might have been mode in such a way as to raise the question of meaning. Ipropose to see Rembrandt's works in terms of the circumstances of his own production or making of art. His life and the life of his art are largely a studio matter. Rembrandt represented life as if it were an event staged in his studio. The puzzling nature of the Jewish Bride is evidence of the professional basis and is the pictorial effect of Rembrandt's domination of the world brought into his studio.