This is Rembrandt - Hardcover

Andrews, Jorella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780677456 ISBN 13: 9781780677453

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Rembrandt van Rijn is the quintessential Old Master. His intimately observed, vivid and profoundly atmospheric works are what many museum-goers consider traditional painting ought to be. But in his own lifetime Rembrandt was not always so well regarded. The expressive honesty of his paintings and prints could evoke disdain as easily as admiration. For more than a century after his death his style was dismissed by many academically trained art theorists and critics. In the nineteenth century, however, he was championed by artists fired by the revolution and change of their times. For them, Rembrandt was a kindred, radical spirit, his paintings imbued with a truly modern ethos. Born at the beginning of the seventeenth century in the Golden Age of the newly formed Dutch Republic, Rembrandt found early fame and great wealth as a painter, living with the opulence of a rock star. But he spent way beyond his means. When, midway through his career, public taste turned away from him, these combined factors proved ruinous. For the rest of his life he would be destitute, crippled by debt, the loss of patrons and the deaths of loved ones. Nonetheless, he continued to paint with the same passion. The art he produced in his final years is arguably his most enduringly sensitive and open.

About this title

About the Author:

Jorella Andrews is a senior lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her previous books include This is Cezane and Showing Off! A Philosophy of Image.

Nick Higgins is a London-based illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and BBC World Service.

About this edition

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1780677456
• ISBN 13: 9781780677453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80
• Illustrator: Higgins Nick