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Self Portrait, ca. 1630
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn,
known commonly only as Rembrandt, is considered a master of
Western Art. With more than 600 paintings and about 2,000
drawings and etchings, (and even more that have been lost
as time passed) he is one of the most prolific artists of
all time. The variety of the subjects used in his work is
amazing when compared to others who specialized in only certain
types of painting. Nudes, landscapes, portraits, everyday
scenes, birds and animals, historical and mythological figures,
biblical subjects, and self-portraits are all to be found
in his creations.
Rembrandt was born in Leiden, The Netherlands on July 15,
1606, the son of a miller of modest means. His education was
not neglected, but the university bored him and he later dropped
out to study art. He began with a local teacher and then left
to study in Amsterdam where he mastered his lessons in six
months. He returned to Leiden and at only 22 was already taking
on students. He moved back to Amsterdam in 1631 and later
married Saskia van Uylenburgh, the cousin of a successful
art dealer who would enhance his career, introducing him to
wealthy patrons who commissioned portraits from him. His other
paintings were greatly sought after and he was making enough
money to afford a huge house filled with many famous works
of art.
Unfortunately, however, his private life was not so successful.
Of his and Saskia's four children, only one survived infancy
and Saskia herself died in 1642. He was forced to declare
bankruptcy in 1656 after his ostentatious lifestyle exceeded
even the substantial funds he was making as a painter, teacher,
and art dealer. He was forced to auction off his treasured
art collection as well as his house. He began to focus more
on painting for his own enjoyment rather than for commission
and his paintings from this time are thought to be his best,
showing a depth of richness and spirituality missing in the
precise brushstrokes of his earlier works.
Hendrickje Stoffels, a housekeeper whom he had hired in 1649,
had become his common law wife and Rembrandt used her as a
model for several of his paintings. He often called friends
and family into his studio to serve as ideals for historical
and mythological paintings, disguising them as portrayals
of famous characters. Sadness still seemed to follow him,
however, when in 1663 his second wife died, followed in 1668
with the death of his only surviving child, Titus. Rembrandt
himself lived less than a year afterwards, dying on October
4, 1669.
Art
in the Making: Rembrandt (Art in the Making) by David
Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Alex Ruger, Raymond White –
Paperback: New Edition 256 pages Publisher: Yale University
Press (September 18, 2006)
Rembrandt (1606–1669) is generally regarded as the finest
painter of the Dutch “Golden Age.” This new edition
of Art in the Making: Rembrandt (published on the 400th anniversary
of the artist’s birth) reexamines 21 paintings firmly attributed
to Rembrandt and 6 now assigned to followers. It reassesses
his technique, materials, and working methods in the light of
significant scholarly developments over the last 20 years, addressing
problems of attribution that were hardly touched on in the original,
groundbreaking edition of 1988.
Introductory essays by distinguished conservation, curatorial,
and scientific specialists cover the artist’s studio and
working methods, the training of painters in 17th-century Holland,
and Rembrandt’s materials and technique. The essays are
followed by handsomely illustrated catalogue entries on 27 paintings.
A comprehensive bibliography provides a rich source of information
about the practice of oil painting, not only for Rembrandt but
for 17th-century Dutch painting in general.
Rembrandt, one of the greatest artists of all time, was spectacularly
successful in his twenties and thirties, bankrupt by his fifties,
and died an unsung death in 1669 at the age of sixty-three.
Along the way, he had to bury four of his five children and
the two loves of his life, and he had to look on while his
patrons chose the predictable but uninspired work of his pupils
over his own increasingly innovative style. Yet adversity
seemed only to deepen his faith and his genius. His self-portraits,
especially, are testimonies to the human spirit, to eyes that
can see beyond the confines of the visible world, but also
to the human soul, its tenacity and its aspirations, and to
the human body, its beauty, its sagging truth, its essential
loveliness, whatever its shape or form.
This is a deeply moving and uplifting book. Part biography,
part history, part art appreciation, it takes the example
of Rembrandt’s life and work as inspiration for the strength
we need to live with passion and an unflinching acceptance
of who we are.
Roger Housden shows how the incredible life and work of Rembrandt
van Rijn can serve as a wise and honest mirror to clarify
our own hopes, struggles, and aspirations. The book consists
of six lessons that draw on Rembrandt’s self-portraits
and life story: Open your eyes; Love this world; Troubles
will come; Stand like a tree; Keep the faith; Embrace the
inevitable
Rembrandt's
Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher by Clifford S.
Ackley, Ronni Baer (Contributor), Thomas E. Rassieur (Contributor),
William W. Robinson (Contributor) – Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: MFA Publications (November 2003)
Rembrandt changed the course of art history not only as a
painter but also as a draftsman and printmaker. His output
of some 300 etchings and drypoints represents a lifelong commitment
to printmaking unequaled by any other 17th-century painter
and comparable only to Picasso in our own time. Rembrandt's
Journey unfolds the richness and diversity of Rembrandt's
career as an etcher in the context of his paintings and drawings.
Illustrated with nearly 200 works in all three media, this
book traces the remarkable evolution of Rembrandt's art over
four decades, from the robust physical energy of his early
productions to the breadth, simplicity and meditative beauty
of his later work. It establishes new and important connections
among these works and among the three media that the artist
explored throughout his career. It encompasses the wide range
of his vision, from the tragic and spiritual to the earthy
and comic. And it gives full due to Rembrandt's narrative
sensibilities, showing how he endowed his figures (particularly
in biblical scenes) with unprecedented psychological nuance
and vividness. Published to accompany the first comprehensive
American survey of his work in decades, Rembrandt's Journey
offers a fresh, authoritative view of this endlessly familiar,
yet still unknown, artist. Essays by Clifford S. Ackley, Ronni
Baer, Thomas E. Rassieur and William W. Robinson. Clothbound,
9.5 x 10 in./304 pgs / 80 color
This extensively illustrated volume provides the definitive
account of Rembrandt`s etchings and their significance within
the artist`s larger body of work. With eloquence and deep insight,
Christopher White analyzes the technical, stylistic, and iconographic
features of selected etchings, traces their close relationship
with the artist`s drawings, and reveals how Rembrandt made the
medium uniquely his own.
Rembrandt's
Eyes by Simon Schama – Hardcover, 640 pages (November
1999) Knopf
Schama re-creates Rembrandt's life and times with all the
verve and panache of a historical novelist—while never
for an instant losing his scrupulous grip on recorded fact
and detail.
The publisher: In recent years Rembrandt's oeuvre and
influence have been hotly debated. A number of paintings hitherto
said to be his have been reattributed by some scholars to
pupils or even to obscure followers. This lavishly illustrated
book, containing essays by some of the world's leading scholars
on seventeenth-century Dutch art, is the first critical review
of the present state Rembrandt studies finds itself in as
a result.
Rembrandt Hardcover (September 1996) Random House
Value Publishing Inc.
H. Perry Chapman has produced the first comprehensive treatment
of the entire body of Rembrandt's self-portraits in their cultural
and historical setting and in the context of the artist's life.
Prevailing scholarship has tried to discredit the idea that
the self-portraits stemmed from any particular inner need, but
Chapman counters by presenting fascinating evidence that they
represent a conscious and progressive quest for individual identity
in a truly modern sense. "H. Perry Chapman, in my view, gives
us the Rembrandt we need in the 1990s. . . . [Her] sensitivity
to questions of style and expression, combined with original
research, leads to a conclusion . . . that `Rembrandt's lifelong
preoccupation with self-portraiture can be seen as a necessary
process of identity formation or self-definition'—in short,
autobiography."—Walter Liedtke, The Journal of Art "Chapman
is a graceful writer. Her arguments are balanced, well documented,
and vigorously pursued. . . . The publication of this book is
cause for gratitude and joy." —Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian
Science Monitor
"With the publication [of Rembrandt's Enterprise], Svetlana
Alpers has firmly established herself in the front ranks of
art historians at work today. . . . The book is not a long
one. Yet, there is more perceptive scholarship packed into
its four chapters than is typically found in a whole shelf
of the more common outpourings of academic writers. Rembrandt's
Enterprise is less a book of archival discoveries than of
fresh interpretation of the revered artist and his milieu.
. . . Alpers makes us see how Rembrandt's complex and enormously
popular art has embedded itself in our ways of thinking about
who we are and how we live, even in the late 20th century."—Christopher
Knight, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters of all time, was sensationally
successful as a young man but lonely, bankrupt, and virtually
ignored by the end of his life—when he painted some of
his most powerful works. This book traces his life and career
and analyzes his paintings, including his unique handling
of light, which would change the course of art forever. 204
illustrations, 169 in full color.
The
Dutch Masters: Rembrandt (2000) Format:
Color, Dolby, NTSC
DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
Run Time: 50 minutes
NOTE: Also available in a six-disc
boxed
set featuring Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Dyck, Rubens,
Bosch, Bruegel
The
Dutch Masters: Rembrandt (2000)
Format:
Color, Dolby, NTSC
VHS Release Date: April 28, 2000
Run Time: 50 minutes
NOTE: Also available in a six-tape
boxed set featuring Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van
Dyck, Rubens, Bosch, Bruegel
Some art lovers believe that Rembrandt’s abilities as a
portraitist have never been surpassed, and it is, perhaps, his
famous series of self-portraits that best demonstrate his genius.
Painted over the course of his life, they reveal nothing less
than Rembrandt himself, as he was when he was alive.
There is often a sadness in these images, perhaps unsurprisingly
as Rembrandt suffered many difficulties during his life, including:
bankruptcy, torrid affairs, and the death of loved ones. His
paintings characteristically depict group portraits, landscapes,
and religious work. Many of these images were produced as etchings,
confirming Rembrandt’s mastery of the line drawing as well
as conveying the drama of great Biblical events. When he died
in 1669, he left behind an incredible body of work whose qualities
have been matched by few other artists of history, if at all.
The Great Artists also features leading authorities, art historians
and scholars.
Rembrandt
& His World
Format:
Color, NTSC
VHS Release Date: June 26, 2001
Run Time: 45 minutes
Rembrandt's home for many years of his life was in Amsterdam
where he and his wife kept a huge number of paintings to satisfy
his mania for collection, and to provide inspiration for his
own work. This program presents the restoration of his house
and contains insights into Rembrandt's personality.
The
Rembrandt Book by Gary Schwartz – Hardcover: 384
pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (October 1, 2006)
With international attention focused on the 400th anniversary
of Rembrandt von Rijn’s birth, the world’s leading
Rembrandt expert weighs in with a penetrating—and accessible—examination
of the Dutch master’s life and art from both the biographical
and the art historical perspective.
Rembrandt was an esteemed artist in his own
time as well as in the present, yet there is
much debate over how many paintings and drawings
can really be attributed to him, and popular
scholastic opinion varies widely. In his lively
text, accompanied by 700 full-color illustrations,
Gary Schwartz addresses the central controversies,
providing art historians, students, and art
lovers with essential new insights to help clarify
the mysteries surrounding the great painter.
A
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings IV: The Self-Portraits
(Rembrandt Research Project Foundation) by P.
Broekhoff, M. Franken, L. Peese Binkhorst, K.
Groen (Contributor), P. Klein (Contributor),
J. van der Veen (Contributor), M. de Winkel
(Contributor), Ernst van de Wetering (Editor),
J. Klilian (Translator), K. Kist (Translator),
M. Pearson (Translator) – Hardcover: 690
pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 28,
2005)
After the publication of Volume III the approach
of the first three volumes needed to be revised.
It had become clear that the strictly chronological
method employed in those books would not be
effective for the final period, covering 1642
until 1669 (the year that Rembrandt died). The
project group therefore chose for a method in
which larger groups of pictorially interconnected
works were studied, such as the self-portraits,
portraits, historical paintings etc. Rembrandt's
workshop practice was scrutinised more closely
as well. In Volume IV the focus lies on Rembrandt's
self-portraits. During this research it became
obvious that matters of authenticity cannot
be viewed separately from questions relating
to the original function and meaning of these
works. Rembrandt's intriguing life-long practice
of portraying himself in front of a mirror is
examined in depth in this volume. As a result,
not only has the group of approximately forty
painted self-portraits gained transparency,
but also new insights have been developed regarding
Rembrandt's drawn and etched self-portraits.
The problems of authenticity relating to a substantial
amount of self-portraits which in the past were
attributed to Rembrandt in this volume receive
an unexpected nuance: through a combination
of technical and stylistic research it is demonstrated
that some of Rembrandt's self-portraits were
in fact painted by others in his workshop. In
clear and accessible explanatory texts the different
paintings are discussed. Among the many illustrations
are life-size colour reproductions of the faces
of the self-portraits under discussion. Details
are shown where possible, as well as the results
of modern day technical imaging like X-radiography.
The volume contains an—in several respects
eye-opening—essay by the head of the Rembrandt
Research Project, Ernst van de Wetering, on
the problems of authenticity and function of
Rembrandt’s self-portraits. In addition,
the book includes groundbreaking contributions
by Marieke de Winkel on the meaning of dress
and costume in Rembrandt’s self-portraits,
by Karin Groen on the use of grounds in Rembrandt’s
workshop and in paintings by his contemporaries,
and a study by Jaap van der Veen concerning
17th-century ideas about authenticity in art.
This work of art history and art research should
be part of every serious art historical institute,
university or museum. The enigma of Rembrandt’s
self-portraits, one of the most compelling phenomena
in art history has been unravelled by Ernst
van de Wetering with unprecedented thoroughness.
Rembrandt's Women by Julia Lloyd
Williams (Illustrator) – Hardcover, 272
pages (July 2001) Prestel USA
The essays explore a variety of issues, ranging
from the 17th-century Dutch notion of female
beauty (was flab more attractive then?) to the
significance of handkerchiefs held by women
in portraits of the era. A key theme in these
pages is the way Rembrandt's transformation
of traditional mythological and biblical scenes
featuring nude women created a new level of
erotic immediacy.
Scholars have unearthed some interesting answers
to questions like, What sort of woman in 17th-century
Amsterdam would allow herself to be portrayed
nude in a work of art?
Rembrandt by Himself by Christopher
White (Editor), Quentin Buvelot (Editor) –
Hardcover, 256 pages (August 1999) Yale Univ
Press
Scrutinizing his own features time and time
again, Rembrandt left an extensive pictorial
autobiography-his surviving self-portraits include
45 oil paintings, scores of drawings, and over
30 etchings. This absorbing book explores how
Rembrandt`s self-portraits developed over his
life span, why the genre was so important in
his work, and how his innovative style influenced
his contemporaries.
Landscapes
of Rembrandt by Boudewijn Bakker, Maria
van Berge-Gerbaud – Hardcover, 392 pages
(January 1999) Uitgeverij Thoth
Reader review: Clear, detailed look into
the painting methods of Rembrandt Clear, open-minded,
intelligent, detailed, and written with expert
knowledge and love of the subject. Figures are
high quality, very relevant, and informative.
Wetering writes as a scientist with an artist's
eye. Fascinating discussions of Rembrandt's
use of underpainting and subsequent background
to foreground painting method, the ingredients
of his painting medium (no resin!), the effect
of yellowing in the protective varnish layer,
and other fundamental aspects of Rembrandt's
art. Read for the latest scientific insight's
into Rembrandt's working methods and for greater
appreciation of Rembrandt's abilities and works.
A Weekend With Rembrandt
by Pascal Bonafoux – Hardcover, 64 pages,
Published by Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1994
Readers witness the joys and rigors of the creative
life as Rembrandt guides them through a hypothetical
weekend of his career illustrated by his own
work and vintage photographs.
A biography of Rembrandt describes the artist's
childhood, his apprenticeship with a painter,
his job at the court of the Prince of Orange
in the Hague, and his success.
Rembrandt's Landscapes by Cynthia
P. Schneider – Hardcover, 289 pages (May
1990) Yale Univ Press
Rembrandt Studies by Julius S. Held
– Revised, Hardcover, 211 pages, Published
by Princeton Univ Press, 1991
Rembrandt
(1936)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence
Director: Alexander Korda
Format:
Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen,
Subtitled, NTSC
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Run Time: 90 minutes
Available Subtitles: Spanish, French
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital
2.0 Mono)
This character study joins the painter at the
height of his fame in 1642, when his adored
wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark,
sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656,
he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the
company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's
unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism
but also some measure of happiness. The final
scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically
enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.
Rembrandt
400 Years (2006)
Format:
Classical, Color, Dolby, NTSC
DVD Release Date: August 8, 2006
Run Time: 74 minutes
Rembrandt is the most famous painter of all
time. This DVD lifts the veil giving you an
intimate view of the Master Artist and his work
and world. The Era of Rembrandt, the Golden
Age revives.
Rembrandt (1987) Format:
Black & White, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Language: Dutch
VHS Release Date: January 1, 2002
Run Time: 98 minutes
Rembrandt
by Himself (2000)
Format:
Color, NTSC VHS Release Date: March 27, 2001
Run Time: 27 minutes
Rembrandt (1606-1669) is the best-known and most influential
Dutch artist of the seventeenth century, and, through his self
portraiture, he remains one of the most recognizable of all
artists.
Rembrandt wanted the surface of his paintings to sparkle, and
he achieved his desired result by developing paints of a highly
specialized formula. His paints contained secret ingredients
known only to the artist, and have eluded discovery until now.
Rembrandt:
Painter of Man (1992)
Format:
Color, NTSC
VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
Run Time: 56 minutes
Here is a detailed look at one of THE most important of art
projects. This mural-sized painting is removed from the museum
wall for reverent restoration by elite world experts. It is
then placed on a floor scaffold that is rigged for restoration
with no damage to the canvas, by artists fixed horizontally
several inches above the painting. The documentary offers a
before-during-and-after trip through this incredible process,
capturing the mystery and majesty of Rembrandt's work. The restoration
of "Night Watch" took months, during which the public
was permitted partial viewing from behind a glass wall. Highly
recommended for art lovers as well as for those who are curious
about the narrow, exciting world of restoration.
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Art
in the Making: Rembrandt
Rembrandt
as an Etcher: A Study of the Artist at Work
Rembrandt's
Eyes
Rembrandt: A Genius and His Impact
Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth Century
Identity
Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market
Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop: Paintings/Drawings and Etchings
Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop: Paintings
Rembrandt: Master of the Portrait (Discoveries Series) 
Color, Dolby, NTSC 
Color, Dolby, NTSC 
The
Rembrandt Book
Rembrandt's Women
Rembrandt by Himself
Rembrandt: The Painter at Work
Rembrandt's Bathsheba Reading King David's
Letter (Masterpieces of Westerm Painting)
A Weekend With Rembrandt 
Rembrandt (First Impressions Series) 
Rembrandt's Landscapes
The Complete Etchings of Rembrandt: Reproduced
in Original Size
Rembrandt (1987)
