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Rembrandt. Complete Drawings and Etchings XXL

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Onno BlomThe most complete and lavishly reproduced collection of Rembrandt’s oeuvre. (Source)

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Rembrandt's Eyes

The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural landscape, a recognizable presence in galleries across Europe and North America. Nonetheless, the artist himself remains an enigma. Rembrandt was a notoriously difficult man and an inveterate risk taker in life and art: his aspirations to a grandiose Amsterdam lifestyle in the heyday of his popularity as a painter of portraits and large-scale historical works... more
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Onno BlomA cornucopia of sights and sensations from 17th-century Holland brings the artist Rembrandt to life. (Source)

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Onno BlomReconstructing the literary and cultural climate of Rembrandt’s day, Schwartz reveals the artist in all his humanity. (Source)

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Rembrandt

The Painter at Work, Revised Edition

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... more
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Onno BlomA magisterial work by one of the foremost Rembrandt scholars of our time (Source)

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