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The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of history's greatest
artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669). Despite never leaving his
native Netherlands, Rembrandt projected his oeuvre past the
boundaries of his own experience, producing some of art's most
diverse and impactful works across portraiture, biblical,
allegorical, landscape, and genre scenes. In all their forms,
Rembrandt's paintings are built of intricacies-the totality of each
subtle facial wrinkle, gaze, or figure amounting to an emotional
force that stands unmatched among his contemporaries and artistic
progeny alike. Each work is imbued with feeling. Biblical scenes,
like Bathsheba at her Bath, become vehicles for meditations on
human longing, probing depths beyond that which is canonized in
scripture or depicted in other representations. His portraits, be
them of wealthy patrons or tradesmen, communicate the essence of an
individual through fine demarcations, their faces bathed in an
ethereal light against darkened earthtones. Perhaps most striking,
his series of self-portraits is a triumph of the medium; beginning
in his youth and spanning until a year prior to his death,
Rembrandt's self portraiture is an intimate glimpse into his
lifelong process of self-reflection. On the occasion of the 350th
anniversary of the artist's death, this XXL monograph compiles all
330 of Rembrandt's paintings in stunning reproductions. From
Belshazzar's Feast to The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, we
discover Rembrandt's painted oeuvre like never before.
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Nadine Gordimer
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R398
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