Rembrandt

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REMBRANDT
LIONELLO PUPPI
In an age when painters tended increasingly to specialize, Rembrandt towered over his contemporaries in the breadth of his creative powers. Even in the early works which he painted in Leiden, we already see the bold realism and deep understanding of character which were to be the hallmarks of his genius. After he had settled in Amsterdam in 1631, he became the leading portrait painter in the city, successfully reconciling his own expressive aims with the styUstic formality which his rich sitters required. Sadly, the... Tovább

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DOLPHIN ART BOOKS 9/6
A magnificent library of monographs dedicated to presenting the work of the greatest painters, sculptors and architects of all time. Each volume, based on the latest research, is written by a leading authority, and contains a biography, a critical appraisal of the work, and fully documented notes on each plate. When complete, this series of books will form a comprehensive encyclopaedia of art.
80 COLOUR PLATES
REMBRANDT
LIONELLO PUPPI
In an age when painters tended increasingly to specialize, Rembrandt towered over his contemporaries in the breadth of his creative powers. Even in the early works which he painted in Leiden, we already see the bold realism and deep understanding of character which were to be the hallmarks of his genius. After he had settled in Amsterdam in 1631, he became the leading portrait painter in the city, successfully reconciling his own expressive aims with the styUstic formality which his rich sitters required. Sadly, the development of his gifts was to diminish his worldly success. After his wife's death in 1642, Rembrandt became more and more a recluse, neglecting current artistic conventions in his passionate determination to render the essence of an individual, an episode or a scene. The consequent loss of commissions reduced him to near poverty in his last years - years which nevertheless drew from him some of his supreme masterpieces of portraiture (including self-portraiture), religious painting and landscape. Rembrandt's great example inspired a host of pupils and fellow artists; but the Shakespearian universality and humanity of his work have never since been matched.
THAMES AND HUDSON Vissza