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The Golden Age of Dutch painting produced some of the finest artists, but few can boast the genius of Rembrandt. This monograph brings together all 330 paintings in exquisite reproductions and detail. Whatever the format, the paintings are woven with subtleties: in every wrinkle in the face, every glance and every feature.
Rembrandt's complete pictorial oeuvre
The genius of the Dutch Golden Age in XL-format
The Golden Age of Dutch painting produced some of the greatest artists and craftsmen in history, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn (1606-1669). Despite never having left his native Holland, Rembrandt elevated his work beyond the limits of his own experience, and created some of the most varied and striking works of art, whether portraits, biblical and allegorical scenes, landscapes or genre works. Whatever the format, Rembrandt's paintings are woven with subtleties: every wrinkle in the face, every glance or feature conveys an emotional power unparalleled among his contemporaries and disciples.
Each work is imbued with humanity. Biblical scenes, such as Bathsheba's Bath, become an avenue for reflection on longing and the human soul, and go beyond what is canonised in scripture or depicted in other representations. His portraits, whether of patrons or wealthy merchants, communicate the essence of the individual through delicate, distinctive features, with their faces bathed in an ethereal light against backgrounds of earthy tones. Perhaps the most striking aspect of his series of self-portraits is the very triumph of this format or genre. Rembrandt began painting them in his youth and continued to do so until a year before his death, and they reveal the introspective process that accompanied him throughout his life.
This XL-size monograph brings together all 330 of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's paintings in exquisite reproductions. The present volume shows Rembrandt's paintings as never before, from The Feast of Balthasar to The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.
About the authors
Marieke de Winkel studied Art History and Classical Archaeology in Amsterdam and Costume History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Between 1993 and 2003 she was a research assistant at the Rembrandt Research Project. In 2003 she received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on costume in Rembrandt's works.
Rudie van Leeuwen studied Art History at Radboud University in Nijmegen. He recently submitted his doctoral thesis on the history of portraiture in 16th- and 17th-century Dutch painting. Together with Volker Manuth he initiated and worked on the Rembrand Documents Project (RemDoc.org). He was in charge, among other things, of the conception and implementation of the integral search function.
Volker Manuth studied art history, philosophy and classical archaeology in Kiel, Bonn and Berlin. In 1987, he completed his doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) with a thesis on the iconography of Rembrandt's Old Testament themes. From 1988 to 1995 he was an assistant and associate professor at the FU Berlin, and from that year until 2003, he taught art history at Queen's University in Ontario (Canada). From 2003, he taught this discipline at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands).
Publisher: Taschen
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