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Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited - A Complete Survey - A Reprint of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited - A Complete Survey - A Reprint of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation, 6
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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 present 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 a reprint of 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.
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