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Rembrandt
1669 - Amsterdam
I am sixty-three years old.
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Johannes Vermeer
1675 - Delft
I have not lost the work.
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Louis XIV
1715 - Versailles
Ritual, bodily decline, and the separation of image from control.
Feeling control leave his body at Versailles, the Sun King writes what absolute power actually felt like from the inside.
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Peter the Great
1724 - Saint Petersburg
State-building, incompletion, and fury at relapse.
A tsar who dragged Russia into the modern world now watches lesser men prepare to undo everything.
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Isaac Newton
1726 - Kensington
In Kensington, feeling the stone return, the mind that defined the laws of the universe reflects on the feuds, the secrecy, and the cost.
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Amsterdam
Alive in this timeline around 1669 / story span 17th century
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Delft
Alive in this timeline around 1675 / story span 1650s-1675
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Rembrandt
1669 - Amsterdam
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I am sixty-three years old.
- 1675