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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> HOW IS IT that Rembrandt has come be synonymous with value itself with conve gent values that lie deep in our culture: huma individuality aesthetic aura and monetar worth? Research and writing on this Dutc master have been dominated by question of attribution and meaning. Now Rembrand Enterprise asks how Rembrandt produce works of a kind to raise these questions i the first place. In this powerfully original study art his torian Svetlana Alpers locates Rembrandt strength and idiosyncrasy in the particular way in which he produced his work. She examine Rembrandt’s career and practice as an artist dealing with his relation to his materials to his models to the studio and to the marketplace. She considers first Rembrandt’s unique hand- ling of paint-proposing an explanation for the remarkable substantiality of his painted surfaces-and then examines his models showing how he treated them in theatrical terms. Establishing the studio as the centre of Rembrandt’s life and work the author argues that the effect of individuality given off by the characters depicted in the artist’s late paintings is the result of their domination by Rembrandt in the studio. (SP)