Rembrandt's Eyes By Simon Schama 1st. Edition 1999 HC/DJ Beautiful Illustrations

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Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Country of Origin
United States
Type
Activity Book
Signed
No
Book Series
Historical
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Features
Illustrated, Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults, Young Adults
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780679402565
Book Title
Rembrandt's Eyes
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
10.3 in
Publication Year
1999
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
2 in
Author
Simon Schama
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European
Item Weight
88.6 Oz
Item Width
8.2 in
Number of Pages
768 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
067940256X
ISBN-13
9780679402565
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038770952

Product Key Features

Book Title
Rembrandt's Eyes
Number of Pages
768 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Simon Schama
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
88.6 Oz
Item Length
10.3 in
Item Width
8.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-019971
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
759.9492 B
Synopsis
For Rembrandt as for Shakespeare, all the world was indeed a stage, and he knew in exhaustive detail the tactics of its performance; the strutting and mincing; the wardrobe and the face paint; the full repertoire of gesture and grimace; the flutter of hands and the roll of the eyes; the belly laugh and the half-stifled sob. He knew what it looked like to seduce, to intimidate, to wheedle, and to console; to strike a pose or preach a sermon; to shake a fist or uncover a breast; how to sin and how to atone; how to commit murder and how to commit suicide. No artist had ever been so fascinated by the fashioning of personae, beginning with his own. No painter ever looked with such unsparing intelligence or such bottomless compassion at our entrances and our exits and the whole rowdy show in between. More than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt remains the most deeply loved of all the great masters of painting, his face so familiar to us from the self-portraits painted at every stage in his life, yet still so mysterious. As with Shakespeare, the facts of his life are hard to come by; the Leiden miller's son who briefly found fame in Amsterdam, whose genius was fitfully recognized by his contemporaries, who fell into bankruptcy and died in poverty. So there is probably no other painter whose life has engendered more legends, nor to whom more unlikely pictures have been attributed (a process now undergoing rigorous reversal). Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon Schama has been thinking for more than twenty years, shows that the true biography of Rembrandt is to be discovered in his pictures. Though a succession of superbly incisive descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into his narrative, he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think about it afresh. But this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved -- its sounds, smells and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvinism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels; and, above all, the profound effect on him of the great master of the immediately preceding generation, the Catholic painter from Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens: "the prince of painters and the painter of princes" with whom Rembrandt was obsessed for the first part of his life, and whose career was the shaping force that drove Rembrandt to test the farthest reaches of his own originality. Rembrandt's Eyes shows us why Rembrandt is such a thrilling painter, so revolutionary in his art, so penetrating of the hearts of those who have looked for three hundred years at his pictures. Above all, Schama's understanding of Rembrandt's mind and the dynamic of his life allows him to re-create Rembrandt's life on the page. Through a combination of scholarship and literary skill, Schama allows us to actually see that life through Rembrandt's own eyes. In overcoming the paucity of conventional historical evidence, it is the most intelligently true biography of Rembrandt that has ever been written, and the most dazzling achievement to date of the art historian whose work has been hailed as "marvelously rich and eloquent" ... "rare, imaginative" ... "provocative" ... "astoundingly learned with verve, humor, and an unflagging sense of delight" ... that of "a master storyteller ... and a master of history."* Quotes from the New York Times Book Review, Time, the New York Times, The Independent on Sunday, and  Nature, respecti
LC Classification Number
ND653.R4S24 1999

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