| Description |
384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-376) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction. The Rembrandt facts ; Caveat lector: an instructive case ; Taking our terms from Rembrandt -- A Dutch artist's life. The Republic ; Leiden ; Artistic traditions inherited ; A brief life ; Key dates ; Art and faith -- Family, loved ones, households. The vanishing van Rijns and ascendant Uylenburghs ; Saskia ; Hendrickje ; Titus ; Households -- Craft. The studio ; An illustrated glossary of Rembrandt's drawing techniques ; Drawings ; Pen and ink ; Ink and wash ; White watercolor or body color ; Dry media: Black chalk, Charcoal, Red chalk, Silverpoint ; Mixed media ; Mechanical treatments ; Techniques not used ; An illustrated glossary of Rembrandt's etching techniques ; Rembrandt's technique as a painter: Support and priming, THe paint layers ; Form ; Color ; Light ; Observation ; Preparatory drawings ; Storytelling ; The non finito look -- Earning and spending. The market ; Art as a profession and a livelihood ; Pupils and assistants ; Buying and paying for a house and its contents -- Patrons. Leiden patrons ; Patrons in The Hague ; Great Amsterdam and Rembrandt's small part of it ; The new market ; The Kloveniersdoelen ; The Staalhof ; The town hall ; The Trip House ; Rulers and leaders ; Men of the cloth ; Patricians ; Military men ; Merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen and professionals ; Scholars and poets ; Artists and collectors -- Landscape. Rembrandt dips his toes in the water ; A start on dry land ; Bible stories in space ; Rembrandt and no longer Rembrandt ; A smattering of landscape paintings ; Lost landscapes ; How and where did Rembrandt make his landscape drawings? ; Rembrandt's working walks ; The Amstel then and now ; Two drawings of the guild hall of the Bergen merchants and their dates ; The sublime and the ridiculous at De Omval ; Outdoor printmaking? ; The drawings ; Landscape and love life ; Country houses and Rembrandt's finances ; Is that all there is? ; Animals -- Humankind. The senses and the passions ; Crafts and trades ; Beggars ; Readers and writers ; Sleepers ; Foreign ways ; Near yet not quite there: Rembrandt and the Jews ; Vices and virtues, thought and action -- Man and god. The holy family ; Christ's ministry ; Passion, death and afterdeath ; Divine intervention ; Holy people ; Moral examples from the Old Testament ; The man of God: Simeon -- Afterlife -- Rembrandt as a Christian rhetorician of the brush. |
| Subject |
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| ISBN |
0810943174 |
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9780810943179 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2433888 |
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NZ1 10759904 |
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AU@ 000040149239 |
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