To look at a vast amount of Rembrandt van Rijn’s art in a limited amount of time is like having a blowout meal: your senses tell you they’ve had enough, you stop, and then after about five minutes you are craving more.

There is simply no other artist like the miller’s son from Leiden. Caravaggio was his equal when it came to lighting effects, Rubens matched the virtuosity of his brushwork, but neither of these two Baroque giants could get close to Rembrandt’s ability to paint “the passions of the soul”.

Go to the astonishingly good All the Rembrandts exhibition at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and stand in front of his Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul (1661) in the first galley. You will see a picture of a penniless 55-year-old artist who is revealing to you not only what “world weary” looks like, but how utterly dispiriting it feels.