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A CORPUS OF
Rembrandt Paintings V The Small-Scale History Paintings
Edited by Ernst van de Wetering The Rembrandt Research Project 7 Reveals profound insight into Rembrandt’s ideas and approach to his art 7 Close to 900 illustrations, over 600 in color
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The Rembrandt Research Project
A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings V The Small-Scale History Paintings Ernst van de Wetering, The Rembrandt Research Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Ed.) 7 The fifth in a six-volume series on the authentic works of Rembrandt 7 Reveals Rembrandt's working methods and the function and meaning of his works 7 Presents a detailed understanding of the painter's views of pictorial quality
2011. XVIII, 674 p. 898 illus., 629 in color. Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4020-4607-0 € 1.200,00 | £1,080.00 Prepublication price, valid until January 31, 2011: € 1.000,00 | £900.00
Deluxe-Edition Deluxe Ed. 2011. Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-0191-5 € 1.500,00 | £1,350.00 Prepublication price, valid until January 31, 2011: € 1.250,00 | £1,125.00
In October 2010, the fifth volume of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings will be published. This series is devoted to all of Rembrandt’s paintings and the work of the ‘Rembrandt Research Project,’ a group of scholars led by Professor Ernst van de Wetering since 1993. The project began in 1968 with the aim of separating Rembrandt’s own paintings from the vast number of Rembrandtesque paintings made by his many apprentices and followers. Having opted for a chronological approach to the cataloging of Rembrandt’s paintings (from 1625 till 1642) in the first three volumes, it was decided in 1993 to adopt a thematic approach for further volumes. The new approach yielded much more information not only about Rembrandt’s working methods but also about the function and meaning of his works. The fifth volume consists of a catalog and analysis of the so-called small-scale history paintings including Rembrandt’s few genre paintings. This theme was chosen because this type of complex work shows a variety of full-length protagonists acting in different narrative settings. For this reason, in the 17th century painting, etching or drawing, biblical and mythological scenes were looked upon as an artist’s greatest challenge. Small-scale history pieces reveal Rembrandt’s artistic ambitions most clearly. In the art-theoretical sections of Volume V of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings new ground is broken not only in the approach to Rembrandt as an artist, but more particularly to his thinking about painting. Moreover, a detailed comparison of Rembrandt’s works and those by his apprentices, led to a detailed understanding of Rembrandt’s views on pictorial quality. Showing the heart of Rembrandt’s oeuvre in three media − drawing, painting and etching − allows the discovery of discerned patterns in his creative thinking that were not previously known.
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