‘What are you doing staring at that fake from Aix?’
Julian Bell: Rembrandt, 15 July 1999
Rembrandt by Himself
edited by Christopher White and Quentin Buvelot.
Yale, 272 pp., £25, June 1999,9781857092523 Show More
edited by Christopher White and Quentin Buvelot.
Yale, 272 pp., £25, June 1999,
Rembrandt: The Painter at Work
by Ernst van de Wetering.
Amsterdam University Press, 340 pp., £52.50, November 1997,90 5356 239 7 Show More
by Ernst van de Wetering.
Amsterdam University Press, 340 pp., £52.50, November 1997,
“... With Rembrandt, as with other totem figures of the arts (Shakespeare, Mozart), longstanding reverence from fellow practitioners coincides with immediate appeal to the community at large. In Rembrandt’s case this appeal comes chiefly from his treatment of the human figure, in his portraits especially, and above all, the self-portraits he painted in his old age ... ”
