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This is Rembrandt / Jorella Andrews ; illustrations by Nick Higgins ; [series editor: Catherine Ingram].

by Andrews, Jorella

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Laurence King Publishing, c2016.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Painting, Dutch -- 17th century.

Painters -- Netherlands. -- Biography.

This is...(Laurence King Publishing)

9781780677453 (hc)

80 p. : col. ill., col. portraits ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 idealised 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.

Ingram, Catherine

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