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Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings Rudie van Leeuwen

Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings By Rudie van Leeuwen

Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings by Rudie van Leeuwen


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The Dutch Golden Age spawned some of historys greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius of Rembrandt. This XXL-sized monograph gathers the artists 330 paintings in exquisite reproductions and details that reveal how, in all their forms, Rembrandts painted works are built of intricaciesthe totality of each subtle wrinkle, gaze, or figure.

Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings Summary

Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings by Rudie van Leeuwen

The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of historys greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (16061669). Despite never leaving his native Netherlands, Rembrandt projected his oeuvre past the boundaries of his own experience, producing some of arts most diverse and impactful works across portraiture, biblical, allegorical, landscape, and genre scenes. In all their forms, Rembrandts paintings are built of intricaciesthe 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, Rembrandts self portraiture is an intimate glimpse into his lifelong process of self-reflection.

This XXL monograph compiles all 330 of Rembrandts paintings in stunning reproductions. From Belshazzars Feast to The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, we discover Rembrandts painted oeuvre like never before.

Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings Reviews

TASCHENs outsize, close-up format works superbly for Rembrandt, who built his compositions on intricate details evoked in fabulously free, loose marks, every stroke its own drama, animating portraits, spiritual narratives, everyday scenes; texture, colour, light all resonate here. * The Financial Times *
With these books, you have brought Rembrandt into the 21st century. * David Hockney *

About Rudie van Leeuwen

Rudie van Leeuwen studied art history at Radboud University in Nijmegen. He obtained his PhD in 2018 on the portrait historie in 16th and 17th-century Dutch painting. Together with Volker Manuth he initiated and worked on the Rembrandt Documents Project (RemDoc.org), where he was centrally involved inter alia in the conception and implementation of the integral search function.

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NGR9783836526326
9783836526326
3836526328
Rembrandt. The Complete Paintings by Rudie van Leeuwen
New
Hardback
Taschen GmbH
2019-07-23
744
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