Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama (Paperback, 2000)

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Author: Simon Schama ISBN 10: 0140288414.

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But this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With imaginative sympathy, and based on his profound knowledge of Holland and the Dutch in the 17th century, Schama conjures the world in which Rembrandt moved - its sounds, smells and tastes as well as its politics - and the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvinism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries. He shows us the central importance of Rembrandt's beloved wife Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels. Above all, he demonstrates the profound effect on Rembrandt of the leading master of the immediately preceding generation, the great Catholic, Antwerp painter Peter Paul Rubens, the prince of painters and the painter of princes with whom Rembrandt was obsessed for the first part of his life, and against whose biography Schama sets Rembrandt's in illuminating counterpoint.

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140288414
eBay Product ID (ePID)91180383

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Publication Year2000
Book TitleRembrandt's Eyes
Number of Pages768 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiographies & True Stories
AuthorSimon Schama
FormatPaperback

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Item Height252 mm
Item Weight2460 g
Item Width194 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorSimon Schama

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