Rembrandt
By Klaus Carl
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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.
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Rembrandt - Klaus Carl
Author: Klaus Carl
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ISBN: 978-1-78160-592-9
Klaus Carl
Harmensz van Rijn
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.