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    Rembrandt
    Rembrandt
    Rembrandt
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    Rembrandt

    By Klaus Carl

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    Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial or tragic incidents of his unfortunate life; his penchant for ostentatious living forced him to declare bankruptcy. His misfortunes are not entirely explicable, and his oeuvre reflects disturbing notions and contradictory impulses emerging from the depths of his being, like the light and shade of his pictures. In spite of this, nothing perhaps in the history of art gives a more profound impression of unity than his paintings, composed though they are of such different elements, full of complex significations. One feels as if his intellect, that genial, great, free mind, bold and ignorant of all servitude and which led him to the loftiest meditations and the most sublime reveries, derived from the same source as his emotions. From this comes the tragic element he imprinted on everything he painted, irrespective of subject; there was inequality in his work as well as the sublime, which may be seen as the inevitable consequence of such a tumultuous existence.
    It seems as though this singular, strange, attractive and almost enigmatic personality was slow in developing, or at least in attaining its complete expansion. Rembrandt showed talent and an original vision of the world early, as evidenced in his youthful etchings and his first self-portraits of about 1630. In painting, however, he did not immediately find the method he needed to express the still incomprehensible things he had to say, that audacious, broad and personal method which we admire in the masterpieces of his maturity and old age. In spite of its subtlety, it was adjudged brutal in his day and certainly contributed to alienate his public.
    From the time of his beginnings and of his successes, however, lighting played a major part in his conception of painting and he made it the principal instrument of his investigations into the arcana of interior life. It already revealed to him the poetry of human physiognomy when he painted The Philosopher in Meditation or the Holy Family, so deliciously absorbed in its modest intimacy, or, for example, in The Angel Raphael leaving Tobias. Soon he asked for something more. The Night Watch marks at once the apotheosis of his reputation. He had a universal curiosity and he lived, meditated, dreamed and painted thrown back on himself. He thought of the great Venetians, borrowing their subjects and making of them an art out of the inner life of profound emotion. Mythological and religious subjects were treated as he treated his portraits. For all that he took from reality and even from the works of others, he transmuted it instantly into his own substance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9781781605929
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      Rembrandt - Klaus Carl

      Author: Klaus Carl

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      61A-63A Vo Van Tan

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      District 3, Ho Chi Minh City,

      Vietnam.

      © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA

      © Parkstone Press International, New York, USA

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      No part of this publication may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

      ISBN: 978-1-78160-592-9

      Klaus Carl

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      Rembrandt

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      1. Self-Portrait with Lace Collar, c. 1629.

      2. The Anatomy Lesson by Dr. Tulp, 1632.

      3. The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem Van  Ruytenburch also known as The Night Watch, 1642.

      4. The Lazarus’ Resurrection, 1630-1631.

      5. The Descent from the Cross, 1633.

      6. Self-Portrait at the Age of Thirty-Four, 1639-1640.

      7. Christ Driving the Money-Changers  from the Temple, 1635.

      8. Christ Driving the Money-Changers  from the Temple, 1626.

      9. Portrait of a Scholar, 1631.

      10. The Adoration of the Magi, 1632.

      11. The Adoration of the Magi, 1632.

      12. John the Baptist Preaching, 1634-1635.

      13. Portrait of Saskia with a Flower, 1641.

      14. Portrait of a Boy.

      15. The Portrait of a Young Woman  with Flowers in Her Hair, 1634.

      16. Young Man with a Lace Collar, 1634.

      17. Rembrandt and Saskia, 1636.

      18. Flora, 1634.

      19. Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume, 1635.

      20. The Incredulity of St Thomas, 1634.

      21. Christ Revealing Himself to the Emmaüs’ Pilgrims, 1648.

      22. The Descent from the Cross, 1634.

      23. The Conspiracy of the Batavians under  Claudius Civilis, c. 1666.

      24. The Deposition, 1633.

      25. Abraham’s Sacrifice, c. 1636.

      26. Abraham’s Sacrifice, 1635.

      27. The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, 1637.

      28. Herman Doomer (born about 1595, died 1650), 1640.

      29. Portrait of Baertje Martens, c. 1640.

      30. Return of the Prodigal Son.

      31. David and Jonathan, 1642.

      32. Old Woman with Glasses, 1643.

      33. The Prophetess Anna  (known as Rembrandt’s Mother), 1631.

      34. Drawing from Raphael’s Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione.

      35. Portrait of an Old Man.

      36. Child in a Cradle, c. 1645.

      37. The Holy Family, 1645.

      38. Danae, 1636.

      39. The Holy Family also known as  The Carpenter’s Family (detail), 1640.

      40. Old Man in an Armchair, 1652.

      41. Portrait of an Old Lady, 1654.

      42. Portrait of an Old Man in Red, 1652-1654.

      43. Portrait of an Old Jew, 1654.

      44. Old Lady Reading, 1655.

      45. Portrait of an Old Lady, 1654.

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