Optimara variety belonging to the Artist's Palette series. Named for the 17th century Dutch painter, Rembrandt. Large, standard African Violet (4-inch pot size). Flowers are frilled, pink stars with splashes of purple. Leaves are medium green. Introduced 1995. (AVSA Reg. No. 8335) More information.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606– October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age (roughly coinciding with the seventeenth century), in which Dutch world power, political influence, science, commerce, and culture — particularly painting — reached their pinnacle.