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- Gives a full overview of the self-portraits of Rembrandt, and the leading Rembrandt experts extensively discuss and describe all self-portraits
- For each Rembrandt self-portrait a thorough analysis is made, using all present day information and technologies, to describe the work of art
- Gives the criteria which are used to determine whether a self-portrait of Rembrandt can be attributed to him
- Serves as the authoritative reference work of today for Rembrandt’s self-portraits
- Covers the full range of Rembrandt’s paintings and paintings attributed to him together with the other Volumes in A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings
- Contains more than 250 colour images of (details of) Rembrandt paintings
- Official publication of the work done by the Rembrandt Research Project based in Amsterdam, covering over thirty years of research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation (RRSE, volume 4)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Volume IV of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings deals uniquely with the self-portraits of Rembrandt. In a clearly written explanatory style the head of the Rembrandt Research Project and Editor of this Volume, Ernst van de Wetering, discusses the full body of work of paintings and etchings portraying Rembrandt. He sets the different parameters for accepting or rejecting a Rembrandt self-portrait as such, whilst also discussing the exact working environment of Rembrandt and his apprentices. This workshop setting created a surroundings where apprentices could be involved in working on Rembrandt paintings making it more difficult to determine the hand of the master. Van de Wetering, who is one of the Rembrandt experts of our day and age, goes down to great detail to explain how the different self-portraits are made and what techniques Rembrandt uses, also giving an overview of which paintings are to be attributed to the Dutch Master and which not.
In the additional catalogue the self-portraits are examined in detail. In clear and accessible explanatory text the different paintings are discussed, larded with immaculate images of each painting. Details are shown where possible, as well as the results of modern day technical imaging like X-radiography.
This work of art history and art research should be part of every serious art historical institute, university or museum. Nowhere in the art history have all Rembrandt’s self portraits been discussed in such detailed and comparative manner by an authority such as Ernst van de Wetering. This is a standard work for decades to come.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings IV
Book Subtitle: Self-Portraits
Authors: Ernst Wetering
Series Title: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4441-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3280-6Published: 18 October 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4441-0Published: 19 July 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 690
Topics: Fine Arts, Arts, History, general