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A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI - Rembrandt’s Paintings Revisited - A Complete Survey (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI - Rembrandt’s Paintings Revisited - A Complete Survey (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation, 6
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A revised survey of Rembrandt’s complete painted oeuvre. The
question of which 17th-century paintings in Rembrandt’s style
were actually painted by Rembrandt himself had already become an
issue during his lifetime. It is an issue that is still hotly
disputed among art historians today. The problem arose because
Rembrandt had numerous pupils who learned the art of painting by
imitating their master or by assisting him with his work as a
portrait painter. He also left pieces unfinished, to be completed
by others. The question is how to determine which works were
from Rembrandt’s own hand. Can we, for example, define the
criteria of quality that would allow us to distinguish the
master’s work from that of his followers? Do we yet have methods
of investigation that would deliver objective evidence of
authenticity? To what extent do research techniques used in
the physical sciences help? Or are we, after all, still
dependent on the subjective, expert eye of the connoisseur? The
book provides answers to these questions. Prof. Ernst van de
Wetering, the author of our forthcoming book which deals with these
questions, has been closely involved in all aspects of this
research since 1968, the year the renowned Rembrandt Research
Project (RRP) was founded. In particular, he played an important
role in developing new criteria for authentication. Van de Wetering
was also witness to the way the often overly zealous tendency to
doubt the authenticity of Rembrandt’s paintings got out of hand.
In this book he re-attributes to the master a substantial number of
unjustly rejected Rembrandts. He also was closely involved in the
(re)discovery of a considerable number of lost or completely
unknown works by Rembrandt. The verdicts of earlier specialists –
including the majority of members of the original RRP (up to 1989)
– were based on connoisseurship: the self-confidence in one’s
ability to recognise a specific artist’s style and ‘hand’.
Over the years, Van de Wetering has carried out seminal research
into 17th-century studio practice and ideas about art current in
Rembrandt’s time. In this book he demonstrates the fallibility of
traditional connoisseurship, especially in the case of Rembrandt,
who was par excellence a searching artist. The methodological
implications of this critical view are discussed in an introductory
chapter which relates the history of the developments in this
turbulent field of research. Van de Wetering’s account of his own
involvement in it makes this book a lively and sometimes
unexpectedly personal account. The catalogue section presents a
chronologically ordered survey of Rembrandt’s entire painted
oeuvre of 336 paintings, richly illustrated and annotated. For all
the paintings re-attributed in this book, extensive commentaries
have been included that provide a multi-facetted new insight into
Rembrandt’s world and the world of art-historical
research. Rembrandt’s Paintings Revisited is the
concluding sixth volume of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings (Volumes
I-V; 1982, 1986, 1989, 2005, 2010). It can also be read as a
revisionary critique of the first three Volumes published by the
old RRP team up till 1989 and of Gerson’s influential survey of
Rembrandt’s painted oeuvre of 1968/69. At the same time, the book
is designed as an independent overview that can be used on the
basis that anyone seeking more detailed information will be
referred to the five previous (digital versions of the) Volumes and
the detailed catalogues published in the meantime by the various
museums with collections of Rembrandt paintings. This work
of art history and art research should belong in the library of
every serious art historical institute, university or
museum.       Â
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