We have witnessed much speculation as to if Rembrandt and Baruch *Spinoza understood one another. The new denial one to Rembrandt is actually Spinoza’s attracting professor could have been rejected. Many scholars has actually stated observe good likeness regarding Spinoza into the sketches from the Rembrandt, but really so-called identifications keeps remained extremely controversial. There was the possibility that one or two could have met in the the home of Manasseh ben Israel, who had been one of Spinoza’s educators, otherwise within household regarding Spinoza’s Latin professor, Dr. Frans van den Emden, where certainly one of Rembrandt’s students is an excellent lodger, otherwise within meetings out of Collegiants and you will Mennonites that philosopher occasionally went to.