Some paintings almost everyone in the Western world knows: Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa,” Piero Della Francesca’s “The Baptism of Christ,” and “The Night Watch” by Rembrandt van Rijn. They are part of the West’s visual vernacular. These are the images we see on tea-towels, t-shirts, cellphone covers and fridge-magnets. The name Rembrandt has become a synonym for greatness. There are Rembrandt restaurants, Rembrandt hotels, and even Rembrandt toothpaste. Art historian Stephanie Dickey notes in “Rembrandt and His Circle” that “he mentored generations of other painters and produced a body of work that has never ceased to attract admiration, critique, and interpretation. Literary critics have pondered ‘Rembrandt’ as a ‘cultural text’; novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers have romanticized his life.” The Rijksmuseum, arguably the Netherland’s most prestigious art museum, had been closed for renovation from December 2003 until 2013. To advertise their reopening, the museum created a delicious flash mob recreation of Rembrandt van Rijn’s “The Night Watch” on YouTube. The title of the video …