Covering all the media Rembrandt worked in throughout his
career, Rembrandt's Faith is the only art-historical study to
address the full breadth of the artist's religious imagery.
Rembrandt weighed in on important religious issues of his day and
was a close student of the Bible, using traditional approaches
based on Saint Paul to employ typology between the Old and New
Testaments. He also shared the Dutch propensity to draw analogies
between the biblical tales of the "chosen people" and Dutch
society, including commentary on righteous leadership under God's
covenant. Rembrandt's close reading of the Bible and biblical
commentary by Calvin and other theologians was greatly abetted by
the publication, in 1637, of the Dutch States Bible translation
with notes. He also avidly studied seventeenth-century
reconstructions of the Jerusalem Temple and frequently located his
biblical narratives in re-creations of these spaces. Rembrandt's
Faith raises essential questions about the complex relationships
among Rembrandt's art, religion, and the theological debates of his
time.
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