Rembrandt - The Painter at WorkRembrandt: The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering. Read Rembrandt: The Painter at Work now at Questia.
One of the most remarkable features of Rembrandt’s presentation of himself in his self-portraits is his attire, the diversity and frequently prominent treatment of which significantly contribute to the great variety of self-portraits in his oeuvre. As c
This image of the young Rembrandt van Rijn, proud in bearing as he gazes directly out at the viewer from within an oval framing device, is not easily forgotten... Entry by David de Witt
Van de Wetering, E. Rembrandt The Painter at Work. Amsterdam University Press, 1997 White, C. and Boon, K. G. Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings [...] Vols xviii-xix: Rembrandt van Rijn. Van Gendt, 1969 White, C. Rembrandt as an Etcher. Yale University Press, 1999 相关...
the year after Rembrandt, had started painting at age eight. He had apprenticed first with Joris Verschoten (ca. 1587–1652) in Leiden, and then for about two years with his “second master” Pieter Lastman, the most important history painter in Amsterdam at that time. In 1619, at age...
Some of the essays in Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus suggest that another change occurs in painter’s religious works at this time. They become quieter and more contemplative. Whereas The Raising of Lazarus of 1630, and of 1632, for example, emphasize dramatic action, a later (1642) ...
Rembrandt: Self-PortraitSelf-Portrait, oil on canvas by Rembrandt, 1660; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. 80.3 × 67.3 cm.(more) This does not mean, however, that the painter had been pushed to the margins of society, not even after both Titus and Stoffels had died. ...
For an aspiring painter, this was one of the typical methods employed to develop a personal style under a master’s guidance. Given the fact, however, that Rembrandt painted his variations on Lastman’s prototypes after he had returned to Leiden as an independent young master, one can ...