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Rembrandt. The Self-Portraits
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Rembrandt. The Self-Portraits
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List price R460
Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
You Save R87 (19%)
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Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn’s radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the
conventions enshrined by his predecessors, Rembrandt transformed
the art into a fully realized medium capable of communicating
emotional depth rather than favorably immortalizing one’s
likeness in the finest trappings of luxury. With more than 80 works
spanning paintings, etchings, and drawings, the Dutchman’s
lifelong practice of self-portraiture functions as a means of
concretizing that which is fleeting. Across four decades, one
constant is particularly striking across media and
styles—Rembrandt’s dedication to presenting himself from
multiple perspectives, celebrating the multiplicity of the
individual and championing the unfiltered portrayal of emotional
expression.Apart from the thematic concerns present within
Rembrandt’s suite of self-portraits, the works themselves are
rich with technical innovation and experimentation. There is an
unmistakable humanity present across the entirety of this oeuvre,
each expressive brushstroke and obfuscated feature amounting to an
unflinchingly honest characterization of himself, in all his
foibles, contrasting states of feeling, and stages of life.This
monograph renders all of Rembrandt’s self-portraits – from his
first experimentations at age twenty-two to his final self-portrait
painted a year before his death – and stands testament to a life
committed to revolutionizing painterly practice both in content and
form.
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