Contents: Foreword - Rembrandt's Youth in Leiden and his Training as a Painter - Constantin Huygens Discovers Rembrandt and Jan Lievens - The Language of Baroque - Self-Portraits - Rembrandt the Etcher - Rembrandt Gains Recognition in Amsterdam - Rembrandt and Saskia - Rembrandt's Commissions from Prince Frederick Hendrick - Rembrandt and Judaism - The Biblical Histories of the First Amsterdam Period - An Uncommon Subject - Rembrandt and Antiquity - Self-Portraits of the Baroque Period - Rembrandt Again Accepts Portrait Commissions - The Night Watch: Myth and Reality - Rembrandt's Crisis and the Art of the 1640s: The Hidden Symbolism of the New Testament Depictions - The Hundred Guilder Print: Suggestions of how the Story Hangs Together - Geertghe Dircx and Hendrickje Stoffels - Etchings of the 1650s - Paintings of the 1650s - The Language of Pictures - Rembrandt's Bankruptcy - Rembrandt and Ruffo - Rembrandt's Late Work - Late Self-Portraits - The Myth of the Misjudged and Forgotten Artist - Notes - Bibliography - Index of Illustrations.
'It is laid out chronologically and discusses clearly and effectively the key works and the central events of the artist's life. It pays particular attention to the two areas of Rembrandt research with which Dr Tumpel has been especially concerned: his use of an existing Northern print tradition (and especially the importance to him of the print series of Maarten van Heemskerk) and his subtle and knowledgeable treatment of religious subjects. Rembrandt was, above all, a painter and etcher of scenes from the Old and New Testaments and it is in the description of his interpretation of these texts that Dr Tumpel is unrivalled among modern writers on the artist.' -Christopher Brown, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Christian T�mpel (2002-2009) was a Professor of the History of Art in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He devoted his life to researching Rembrandt, starting in 1968 with his doctoral dissertation about Rembrandt's historical paintings, which earned him a fellowship at the Warburg Institute in London the following year. In 1971 he was awarded the Prize of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science for his studies of Rembrandt, an honour the academy bestows only every twenty years. He was a prodigious contributor to the catalogues of international exhibitions, most notably to the anniversary exhibition 'Rembrandt' at the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam. He presented papers at conferences in Washington, Sacramento, Detroit, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and Hamburg and was involved in the curatorial preparation of major exhibitions of Dutch art and 19th century sculpture in Amsterdam, Haarlem, Nijmegen, Jerusalem, M�nster and Berlin. His essays and books on Dutch art and on Rembrandt have been translated into many languages.
'Well worth reading' -The Spectator 'An impressive accomplishment *****' - Art Times 'An impressive accomplishment *****' Art Times '...Dr. Tumpel is unrivalled among modern writers on the artist.' -- Christopher Brown Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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