Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop
Subtitle: Drawings and Etchings (National Gallery London Publications)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 23, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300051513
Subjects: Drawing & drawings; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Individual artists; c 1600 to c 1700; Exhibition Catalogs; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Netherlands; Graphic Arts - General; Art / Graphic Arts; Individual Artist; Techniques - Drawing; Techniques - Printmaking; 1606-1669; Exhibitions; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn,; Rembrandt school
Description: Rembrandt is an artist who has excited exceptional interest since his own lifetime: the remarkable combination of his work, his complex personal relationships, his financial difficulties and the relative lack of documentary evidence has generated a vast body of scholarship. As a result, by the middle of this century, innumerable paintings and drawings were attributed to Rembrandt and a romantic mythology had replaced the facts of his life. The Rembrandt Research Project, comprising the foremost Rembrandt scholars, based in Amsterdam, has undertaken the formidable task of establishing a body of works which can be securely attributed to Rembrandt. This has resulted in the deattribution of many paintings, once unquestioningly accepted as Rembrandts. Others have focused on artists known to have studied in Rembrandt's workshop and the attribution of paintings to these students. This magnificent book unites these two strands of research to present for the first time a clear picture of Rembrandt's relationship with the members of his workshop. The book also serves as a catalogue of the exhibition organised by curators from Berlin, Amsterdam and London--galleries which have three of the finest collections of Rembrandts. It includes essays on Rembrandt's biography and social status, his technique, the organisation of his workshop, and the history of critical response to him. The catalogue contains detailed study of fifty-one paintings by Rembrandt, providing a chronological overview of his entire output from his earliest subjects to the last self-portrait. This is followed by sections for pupils, including Ferdinand Bol, Gerrit Dou and Nicolaes Maes, in which paintings once given to Rembrandt are reattributed to members of his workshop and related to paintings known to be by them. Thus readers may judge these new ideas for themselves on the basis of the evidence provided. -- Inside jacket flap.