Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Libros

"Unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the verbal text of the work originally published in 1977 by Oresko Books Ltd., London, and Gary Schwartz, Maarssen, as Rembrandt: all the etchings reproduced in true size"--T.p. verso.

Book by Rembrandt

For Rembrandt, as for Shakespeare, all the world was indeed a stage, and he knew in exhaustive detail the tactics of its performance: the strutting and mincing, the wardrobe and face-paint, the full repertoire and gesture and gimace, the flutter of hands and the roll of the eyes, the belly-laugh and the half-stifled sob. He knew what it looked like to seduce, to intimidate, to wheedle and to console; to strike a pose or preach a sermon, to shake a fist or uncover a breast; and how to sin and how to atone. No artist had ever been so fascinated by the fashioning of personae, beginning with his own. No painter ever looked with such unsparing intelligence or such bottomless compassion at our entrances and our exits and the whole rowdy show in between.

This stunning volume features over five hundred illustrations of the most iconic works of Rembrandt. Accompanied by insightful commentary by art historian Adolf Rosenberg, this book is an essential resource for any lover of art.

Dans la Hollande indépendante industrieuse et prospère du XVIIe siècle, Rembrandt vit l'ambition et la solitude, la fortune et la faillite, l'amour et le deuil, la gloire et l'incompréhension. La leçon d'anatomie du Professeur Tulp lui apporte la notoriété et les bourgeois se pressent chez lui pour commander leurs portraits. Mais La Compagnie du capitaine Frans Banningh Cocq – La Ronde de nuit – désarçonne... On le respecte toujours, on s'éloigne de lui. Pascal Bonafoux nous guide dans une œuvre où le fond et les figures ne font qu'un, ce qui, pour Delacroix, est le signe de la perfection.