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Bezig met laden... Rembrandt, the painter at work (1997)door Ernst van de Wetering
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Rembrandt's intriguing painting technique stirred the imaginations of art lovers during his lifetime and has done so ever since. In this book, now revised, updated, and with a new foreword by the author, Rembrandt's pictorial intentions and the variety of materials and techniques he applied to create his fascinating effects are unraveled in depth. At the same time, this "archaeology" of Rembrandt's paintings yields information on many other levels and offers a view of Rembrandt's daily practice and artistic considerations while simultaneously providing a more dimensional image of the artist. Copub: Amsterdam University Press Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)759.9492The arts Painting History, geographic treatment, biography Other geographic areas Europe Other parts NetherlandsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.75)
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Written by Ernst van de Wetering, chairman of the Rembrandt Research Project, this book is an awesome scientific journey into Rembrandt the man, his workshop, and the painting techniques of his time. Lovingly detailed, the book provides amazing perspectives with which to meet Rembrandt’s paintings and drawings, and also those of his students. Maybe it’s precisely because van de Wetering is considered to be the foremost Rembrandt researcher of our time, he’s anything but dogmatic when it comes to authenticity; the “workshop approach” not only allows, but actively encourages, the appreciation of those paintings that turn out to be not from Rembrandt’s own hand, or only partly so.
If you’re a science buff (humanist, social, or natural sciences, no matter), this book is for you. It doesn’t “explain” the paintings, but it doesn’t have to: by the end of the book, you’ll know so much about Rembrandt’s paintings that they pretty much explain themselves, within the parameters of what we know or at least can plausibly assume about Rembrandt’s time. After having read The Painter at Work, the next Rembrandt exhibition we went to became a revelation (which, incidentally, was the terrific “Rembrandt Trilogy” 400th Birthday Exhibition, 2006, in Berlin). Also, the paper quality and the quality of the prints and illustrations in this book is astonishing—in both the hardcover edition I borrowed from the library and the paperback edition I subsequently acquired.