基本信息出版社：Prestel Publishing
页码：269 页
出版日期：2001年07月
ISBN：3791324985
International Standard Book Number：3791324985
条形码：9783791324982
EAN：9783791324982
版本：illustrated edition
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Art & Design

内容简介 This magesterial new work is the first to focus on Rembrandt's portrayal of women. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, and the Royal Acadmey of Arts, London, it examines the women in Rembrandt's life, as well as his unique approach to depicting the female form in paintings, drawings, and prints.
作者简介 The Authors Julia Lloyd Williams is Assistant Keeper of Dutch Art at rge National Gallery of Scotland; SAC Dudok van Heel is the Archivist at the Gemeentearchif, Amsterdam; Eddy de Jongh is Professor of Art History at the University of Utrecht; Eric Jan Sluiter is in the Art History department of the University of Leiden; Volker Manuth is Professor of Art History at Queen's University, Toronto and associate advisor to the Rembrandt Research Project; Marieke de Winkel is in the Department of Art History at the University of Amsterdam and advisor on costume to the Rembrandt Research Project.
编辑推荐 Rembrandt famously had three women in his life: Saskia, the burgomaster's daughter, who died at 30; Geertje Dircks, the housekeeper with whom he had a bitter quarrel; and Hendrickje Stoffels, the servant girl who bore him a child and loyally stood by him in bankruptcy. Part of the mystique of his art, fueled by its emotional depth, is that his female figures are portraits of members of his household. The truth of the matter is more cloudy, though, since no documented portraits of the two servants exist. But scholars are interested in many other aspects of Rembrandt's women, as this exceptional book explains in six lively essays and detailed discussions of 140 works. They range from major paintings (Susanna and the Elders, Danae) to intimate etchings and drawings of women in domestic settings.

The essays explore a variety of issues, ranging from the 17th-century Dutch notion of female beauty (was flab more attractive then?) to the significance of handkerchiefs held by women in portraits of the era. A key theme in these pages is the way Rembrandt's transformation of traditional mythological and biblical scenes featuring nude women created a new level of erotic immediacy. Scholars have unearthed some interesting answers to questions like, What sort of woman in 17th-century Amsterdam would allow herself to be portrayed nude in a work of art?

Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name organized by the National Gallery of Scotland--on view at the Royal Academy of Arts, London through December 16, 2001--Rembrandt's Women offers an abundance of color and black-and-white reproductions in an attractive format. The fresh and far-ranging approach to the artist's life and times make the book a must for every Rembrandt lover's bookshelf. --Cathy Curtis
专业书评 From the Publisher

The book features 140 superb works drawn from the finest collections in the world -- sketches of women eomplyed in household chores, mothers with babies and toddlers, paintings of smiling servant girls and wizened old women, studies of the female nude, pictures of goddesses and historical heroines, and his little known erotic prints. It traces how mother, wife, mistress, maid, and models appear in compositions, and follows how, throughout his life, Rembrandt combined classical and northern traditions, the personal and the universal, with an extraordinary breadth of vision in his depiction of womankind. The essays by major Rembrandt scholars discuss the painter's biography in relation to the portrayal of women in his household; the social position of women in Rembrandt's time, the artistic context of Rembrandt's nudes; the identity of women who modelled for artist's in 17th century Holland; the significance of costume and jewellry in Rembrandt's images, eroticism in Rembrandt's works, and responses to Rembrandt's portrayal of women of later artists through the 18th and 19th centuries up through Picasso.