Rembrandt. The Painter Thinking - Softcover

Wetering, Ernst Van De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089645616 ISBN 13: 9789089645616

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Even during the artist s lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn to be an exceptional artist. In this revelatory sequel to the acclaimed" Rembrandt: The Painter at Work," renowned Rembrandt authority Ernst van de Wetering investigates precisely why the artist, from a very early age, was praised by prominent connoisseurs. He argues that Rembrandt, from his very first endeavors in painting, embarked on a journey past all the foundations of the art of painting that, according to (up until now misinterpreted) contemporary written sources, were considered essential in the seventeenth century. Rembrandt never stopped searching for solutions to the pictorial problems that confronted him; this led over time to radical changes in course that can t simply be attributed to stylistic evolution or natural development. In a quest as rigorous and novel as the artist s, van de Wetering reveals how Rembrandt became the best painter the world had ever seen. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this groundbreaking exploration reconstructs Rembrandt s closely guarded theories and methods, shedding new light both on the artist s exceptional accomplishments and on the practice of painting in the Dutch Golden Age.

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From the Inside Flap:

Praise for van de Wetering's Rembrandt: The Painter at Work:
 
“Who would not have wanted to look over Rembrandt’s shoulder while he painted? Among the countless books on Rembrandt, that by Ernst van de Wetering comes closest to conveying something of this experience.” —Ernst Gombrich, author of The Story of Art
 
“No one attempting to write about Rembrandt in the future will be able to do so without taking this fine work into account.” —Simon Schama, author of The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
 
“This is a very rich book, a deeply felt analysis of an artist whom the author knows better than almost any other living scholar.” —Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

"http://www.hiddenmasterpieces.com/dr-ernst-van-de-wetering/" target="_blank"> Ernst van de Wetering (1938) is emeritus professor of art history. He became a team-member of the Rembrandt Research Project in 1968 and its chairman in 1993. Originally trained as a painter and art-historian, he worked from 1969-1987 in the Amsterdam based Central Research Laboratory of Objects of Art and Science. From 1987-2002 he taught at the University of Amsterdam. In 2003/2004 he was Slade Professor at the University of Oxford. He is considered one of the world's foremost specialists on Rembrandt and his work. In 1997, he published the widely acclaimed monograph Rembrandt: The Painter at Work (2nd ed. 2008). 2014 saw the publication of his monumental oeuvre catalogue Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited: A Complete Survey; the concluding volume of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings.|

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9089645616
• ISBN 13: 9789089645616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Poelstra Wardy