Fictions of the pose
Subtitle: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance
By: Harry Berger, Jr.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Subjects: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 -- Self-portraits; Portrait painting -- Psychological aspects -- History
Genres: Self-portraits.
Description: "The book is in four parts. Parts One and Two comprise an interpretive study of the technical and sociopolitical conditions within which portraiture becomes an important if problematic medium of self-representation in early modern Europe. The major portion of these two sections considers the structure and the consequences of a system of practices and conventions that governs poses in commissioned portraits. In Part Three the scene shifts from Italian to Dutch portraiture.

Part Four is devoted to self-portraits by Rembrandt that are interpreted as responses to the conditions depicted in the first three parts. Through a series of close readings of individual works, the author demonstrates the ironic, polemical, and political force of Rembrant's self-portraits."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-610) and indexes.