In Rembrandt's artful restaging of the domestic drama of marriage, Cornelis seizes the limelight, caught in a rhetorical gesture suitable to his role as leader of and preacher to Amsterdam's Mennonites. Far from forgotten, Aaltje listens into the night with critical attention as her husband expounds upon the Word, which he has found in those sacred books on the Anslo's richly carpeted working table.
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