Bibliograph

This is Rembrandt, Jorella Andrews ; illustrations by Nick Higgins

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This is Rembrandt, Jorella Andrews ; illustrations by Nick Higgins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 80)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This is Rembrandt

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

913557747

Responsibility statement

Jorella Andrews ; illustrations by Nick Higgins

Summary

Rembrandt van Rijn is probably the most famous Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. His works are greatly loved today, but he was not always so well regarded. His life was one of a dramatic rise and fall, unfolding during the Golden Age of the newly formed Dutch Republic. Rembrandt's public acclaim and wealth as a painter came to him as a very young man. His images were vigorous, psychologically compelling but also often less-than-flattering. By his middle age taste had shifted to more idealized visions, and by the time of his death in 1669 Rembrandt was destitute. But whether the public was with or against him, Rembrandt continued to paint with the same passion, and arguably the art he produced in his final, destitute years is his most intimate, sensitive and open

Target audience

adult

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