Rembrandt was the most original printmaker of all time. In no fewer than 300 images, he covered the full range of styles and subjects for which he is celebrated, including self-portraits, scenes from the Bible, vignettes of every day, and character studies. Rembrandt was famously experimental, and often reworked his copper plates to improve and extend their expressive power, creating startlingly modern results.   Rembrandt the Printmaker, compiled by three leading authorities on Rembrandt, and published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and British Museum (London), aims to illustrate a selection of his finest prints. Exciting new areas of research have opened up in recent years, making it possible to follow the progress of Rembrandt's work on each plate and also revealing details of his habit of revising the images at various times throughout his life. All of these new insights are presented to the wider public for the first time in Rembrandt the Printmaker, which is lavishly illustrated with 80 color and 320 black/white images.

Rembrandt the Printmaker

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ger Luijten

Erik Hinterding

Ernst van de Wetering

Crafts & Hobbies

British Museum Press

Since the second half of the last century art historians, realizing that the image of Rembrandt’s work had become blurred with time, have attempted to redefine the artist’s significance both as a source of inspiration to other artists and as a great artist in his own right. In order to carry on the work started by previous generations, a group of leading Dutch art historians from the university and museum world joined forces in the late 1960s in order to study afresh the paintings usually ascribed to the artist. The researchers came together in the Rembrandt Research Project which was established to provide the art world with a new standard reference work which would serve the community of art historians for the nearby and long future.  They examined the originals of all works attributed to Rembrandt taking full advantage of today’s sophisticated techniques including radiography, neutron activation autoradiography, dendrochronology and paint sample analysis – thereby gaining valuable insight into the genesis and condition of the paintings.

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings (Set vols 1-3) (Rembrandt Research Project Foundation)

Bob Haak

S.H. Levie

Arts & Photography

Springer

Rembrandt / the Master and His Workshop.

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Lene B

Eva de la Fuente Pedersen

Statens Museum for Kunst

Rembrandt's paintings have been admired throughout centuries for their artistic freedom. But Rembrandt was also a craftsman whose painting technique was rooted in the tradition. This revised new edition is the fruit of lifelong study of Rembrandt's working methods, his intellectual approach to the art of painting and the organization of his studio. Van de Wetering demonstrates how this knowledge can be used to answer questions about authenticity and other art-historical issues. Some 350 illustrations, half of which are reproduced in colour, make this book into a monumental tribute to one of the world's most important painters.

Rembrandt

History & Criticism

Amsterdam University Press

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