From Belshazzar's Feast, The Night Watch, The Return of the Prodigal Son, The Jewish Bride, The Abduction of Europa, Still Life with Peacocks, the miracle of Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee to The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, we discover Rembrandt's painted oeuvre like never before. Rembrandt van Rijn, commonly known as 'Rembrandt,' produced some of art's most diverse and impactful works across portraiture, biblical, allegorical, landscape, and genre scenes. Biblical scenes, like Bathsheba at her Bath, become vehicles for meditations on human longing. He was the most sought-after painter in the prosperous trading city of Amsterdam yet died completely impoverished. Though he never left his homeland, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn's (1606-1669) work extends far beyond the confines of his personal experience, constituting some of the most effective and multifaceted works in art history, forever engraved on the collective memory - The Night Watch, epitomising the flowering of Dutch urban culture in the 17th century, or Self-Portrait as Zeuxis, which remains enigmatic to this day. As an artist of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrandt's interest was in human passions. Rembrandt also left behind many self-portraits - no other artist of the time portrayed himself so frequently, thus documenting his own development from youth to old age. New compact edition with stunning reproductions all in dramatic colour. 16 x 22cm, 512 pages. New from Taschen.
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