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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wetering, Ernst van de (1938-2021)
Titre(s) : Rembrandt [Texte imprimé] : the painter thinking / Ernst van de Wetering
Publication : [Oakland, (Calif.)] : University of California press, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-336 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 27 cm
Comprend : Profession: painter ; Towards a reconstruction of Rembrandt's art theory ; Rembrandt
as a searching artist.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Bbliogr. p. 292-296. Index
Throughout his life, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was considered an exceptional
artist by contemporary art lovers. In this highly original book, Ernst van de Wetering
investigates why Rembrandt, from a very early age, was praised by high-placed connoisseurs
like Constantijn Huygens. It turns out that Rembrandt, from his first endeavours in
painting on, had embarked on a journey past all the 'foundations of the art of painting'
which were considered essential in the seventeenth century. In his systematic exploration
of these foundations, Rembrandt achieved mastery in all of them, thus becoming the
'pittore famoso' that count Cosimo the Medici visited at the end of his life. Rembrandt
never stopped searching for ever better solutions to the pictorial problems he saw
himself confronted with; this sometimes led to radical decisions and alterations in
his way of working, which cannot simply be explained by attributing them to a 'change
in style' or a 'natural development'. In a quest as rigorous and novel as Rembrandt's,
Van de Wetering shows us how Rembrandt dealt with the foundations of his art and used
them to try and become the best painter the world had ever seen. His book sheds new
light both on Rembrandt's exceptional accomplishments and on the practice of painting
in the Dutch Golden Age at large
Sujet(s) : Rembrandt (1606-1669) -- Critique et interprétation
Indice(s) Dewey :
709.2 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-520-29025-9 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450608776
Notice n° :
FRBNF45060877
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