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Author: Julia Lloyd Williams Publisher: Prestel Publishing ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 280
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An examination of the women in Rembrandt's life, this volume details his unique approach to depicting the female form in paintings, drawings and prints.
Author: Julia Lloyd Williams Publisher: Prestel Publishing ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
An examination of the women in Rembrandt's life, this volume details his unique approach to depicting the female form in paintings, drawings and prints.
Author: Anat Gilboa Publisher: Eburon B V ISBN: 9789051669541 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 241
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This study focuses on certain ideas and positions that define the woman in Rembrandt's work. In six chapters several aspects of the woman or feminine image are discussed: the development of female themes throughout Rembrandt's work, spirituality as embodied by Mary - the mother of Christ, portaiture - showing the women in her social context, the nude and the erotic, Rembrandt's intimate companions - Saskia van Uylenburgh, Geertge Dircx and Hendrickje Stoffels, and goddesses and heroines.
Author: Eric Jan Sluijter Publisher: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9053568379 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 452
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Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes—Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba—as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical—even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt and the Female Nude, examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the background of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands and Italy. Exploring Rembrandt’s intense dialogue with the works of predecessors and peers, Sluijter demonstrates that, more than any other artist, Rembrandt set out to incite the greatest possible empathy in the viewer, an approach that had far-reaching consequences for the moral and erotic implications of the subjects Rembrandt chose to depict. In this richly illustrated study, Sluijter presents an innovative approach to Rembrandt’s views on the art of painting, his attitude towards antiquity and Italian art of the Renaissance, his sustained rivalry with the works of other artists, his handling of the moral and erotic issues inherent in subjects with female nudes, and the nature of his artistic choices.
Author: Simon Schama Publisher: ISBN: 9780713993844 Category : Artists Languages : en Pages : 750
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For Rembrandt, as for Shakespeare, all the world was indeed a stage, and he knew in exhaustive detail the tactics of its performance: the strutting and mincing, the wardrobe and face-paint, the full repertoire and gesture and gimace, the flutter of hands and the roll of the eyes, the belly-laugh and the half-stifled sob. He knew what it looked like to seduce, to intimidate, to wheedle and to console; to strike a pose or preach a sermon, to shake a fist or uncover a breast; and how to sin and how to atone. No artist had ever been so fascinated by the fashioning of personae, beginning with his own. No painter ever looked with such unsparing intelligence or such bottomless compassion at our entrances and our exits and the whole rowdy show in between.
Author: Julia Lloyd Williams Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 280
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This is the first book to focus on Rembrandt's portrayal of women. It reveals the women in Rembrandt's life, as well as his unique approach to depicting the female form in paintings, drawings and prints, all shown through 140 superb works drawn from the finest collections in the world.
Author: Marlies Stoter Publisher: W Books ISBN: 9789462583030 Category : Frisians Languages : en Pages : 168
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"In 1634 the up-and-coming painting talent Rembrandt van Rijn wed the love of this life in Friesland: Saskia Uylenburgh, the daughter of a councillor at the Court of Friesland. The story of their marriage is also that of seventeenth-century marriages in general, from courtship to drawing up a will. How did such a stylish wedding come about, and how did life proceed afterwards, when love and suffering were shared? Using evocative paintings, etchings, documents and precious wedding gifts, this book shows us the world of Friesland's most famous bride and groom ever--and that marriage vows back then actually appear to differ little from those of today."--from back cover
Author: Nina Siegal Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385538375 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 237
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Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection that is to be recorded by the twenty-six-year-old artist from Leiden who has yet to attach his famous signature to a painting. As the story builds to its dramatic and inevitable conclusion, the events that transpire throughout the day sway Rembrandt to make fundamental changes to his initial composition. These changes will remain mysteries for centuries until a young art historian closely examines the painting in the twenty-first century, and makes surprising discoveries about the painter, his process, and his genius for capturing enduring truths about human nature in a single moment.
Author: Kim Devereux Publisher: ISBN: 9781782396765 Category : Languages : en Pages : 400
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Hendrickje, a young girl from a strict Calvinist family, leaves home to find work as a maid. Entering Rembrandt's flourishing and busy household after the death of the great artist's wife, she finds a world filled with secrets and desire. Shocked to the core after discovering the intense relationship between Rembrandt and Geertje, his housekeeper, Hendrickje is nevertheless slowly drawn to Rembrandt by his freshness, by his freedom, by his fierce desires. Rembrandt's Mirror explores the three women of Rembrandt's life, and the towering passions of the artist, seen through the eyes of his last, great love, Hendrickje.
Author: Sylvie Matton Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 1838851666 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to take up a servant's role in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante, and plays witness to the highs and lows of the great artist's life. But Hendrickje is fated to discover the hypocrisy and greed of society in Amsterdam's Golden Age. In sensuous prose, Matton paints a powerful fictional portrait of this impassioned relationship through the eyes of a remarkable woman.
Author: Julia Lloyd Williams
Author: Julia Lloyd Williams
Author: Anat Gilboa
Author: Eric Jan Sluijter
Author: Simon Schama
Author: Julia Lloyd Williams
Author: Marlies Stoter
Author: Nina Siegal
Author: Kim Devereux
Author: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Author: Sylvie Matton