When a billionaire couple unveiled their trove of Rembrandts in Amsterdam this spring, the artist’s hometown suddenly had nearly twice as many of his masterpieces.

That’s because their 17 paintings, which rival the 22 in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, make up the world’s largest collection of Rembrandts in private hands.

And lucky for us: In October, this cache will form the backbone of the Norton Museum of Art’s new blockbuster show, “Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection.”

The Rembrandts are the center of gravity in this survey of 75 paintings by 27 Dutch Golden Age artists, all contemporaries and disciples of the famed painter, etcher, printmaker and drafter. Taken together, The Leiden Collection — owned by Thomas Kaplan and Daphne Recanati Kaplan — trac

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