Rembrandt's house - Hardcover

Bailey, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395257069 ISBN 13: 9780395257067

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1978

Synopsis

Rembrandt's House by Bailey, Anthony. 8vo.

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Bailey is an art historian, was for many years a writer for The New Yorker and is the bestselling author of Standing in the Sun, shortlisted for the James Tair Black Memorial Prize for biography; Vermeer: A View of Delft, shortlisted for the Whitbread biography prize; as well as biographies of Constable and Velzquez.

Review:

“An affectionate meditation on the mood, the texture and the circumstances of the painter’s life and times. Bailey...skillfully mingles his own impressions of Amsterdam today with the subject’s. [He] moves, as Rembrandt did himself, from the tangible to the intangible, the material to the spiritual, the personal to the social. It is an appropriate way to look at an artist who... immortalized his time and place.” —The New York Times

“Bailey has woven together a delightful image of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam, of the people he knew, the houses he lived in, the streets he walked. It is an excellent book, easy to read, and filled with fascinating information about Rembrandt and his world.” —The Washington Post

“Bailey manages masses of detail, from established fact to whimsical lore, with impressive skill. It would not be so absorbing, nor so evocative, if it did not return again and again to the sensuous terms of Rembrandt’s world. A literary triumph. It sets the standard for efforts to evoke the human reality of an artist of the past.” — Kenneth Baker, art writer, Boston Phoenix

""An engaging introduction."" — Simon Schama, art historian

“This is a book about Rembrandt, but about Rembrandt in Amsterdam, and it tells us the history of that city without losing track of the artist... modest, rich and sensitive... This is a book to read at many levels; no one should visit Holland again without it in his bag. It is a labour of love.” — The Irish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0395257069
• ISBN 13: 9780395257067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246