REMBRANDT/NOT REMBRANDT IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART : Aspects of Connoisseurship, Complete

Walter A. Liedtke, Hubert Von Sonnenburg

ISBN 10: 0810964937 / ISBN 13: 9780810964938

Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995

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Near Fine in a wrappers. Very Good+ slipcase. Scuffing to front and rear surfaces of slipcases. ; 11.90 X 9 X 0.50 inches; 256 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: REMBRANDT/NOT REMBRANDT IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART : Aspects of Connoisseurship, Complete
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810964937
• ISBN 13: 9780810964938
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Art, Architecture and Photography
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Synopsis

Book by Von Sonnenburg, Hubert; Liedke, Walter A.

Reviews

The apparently never-ending attempt to define Rembrandt's oeuvre is here pursued with unprecedented candor. Thus in the first volume of this handsomely produced exhibition catalog we find a scientific and technical approach to assigning authorial responsibility to Rembrantesque paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while in the second volume the museum's Rembrandtian holdings of paintings, drawings, and prints are scrutinized and attributed from a more strictly art historical and connoisseurship perspective. The apparent limitations of both methodologies are manifested in the less-than-perfect consonance of the paintings' attributions. However, these discrete investigations will illuminate, if not the precise nature of the master's achievement, then the prevailing strategies by which an artist's canon may be assayed. Art collections, scholarly and otherwise, should welcome this intelligent contribution to the not always fruitful quest of this illusive genius.?Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
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