Title A corpus of Rembrandt paintings IV : self portraits / Ernst van de Wetering, editor

Published New York : Springer, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (690 pages) : illustrations Series Rembrandt Research Project Foundation Rembrandt Research Project Foundation Contents Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface The Rembrandt Research Project: Past, Present, Future; The history of the project in terms of the formulation of the questions and the choice of methods; Organisation of Volumes IV -- V; Abandoning the ABC system; The organisation of the entries; The staff and financing of the RRP; The future of the project; Acknowledgements; Summary The genesis of this volume and a survey of its contents; The genesis of this volurne; Why so many self-portraits and for whom?; Other functions of Rembrandt's works before the mirror'; Non-autograph self-portraits Variations in style and consequent problems over authenticityLikeness and expression; Aspects of Rembrandt's theoretical ideas on art; In conclusion; Photo acknowledgments; Bibliographical and other abbreviations; Essays; Chapter I By his own hand. The valuation of autograph paintings in the 17th century; I. Documents pertaining to the autograph status of paintings; II. Mark, monogram and signature; III. Probate inventories; IV. Rembrandt; Chapter II Rembrandt's clothes -- Dress and meaning in his self-portraits; Appendix; Contents of Chapter III Chapter III Rembrandt's self-portraits: problems of authenticity and functionIntroduction; Possible objective criteria for attribution; -- Rembrandt himself; -- Provenance; -- Signatures; -- Physiognomy; -- X-Radiography; The 'palimpsest'; The repentir; The application of white lead; -- Supports, grounds and the first stages in the development of the painting; -- The quality of the pictorial illusion; a dem.onstration; -- The Bayesian approach; Three factors complicating the identification of the body of Rembrandt's autograph self-portraits; 1. Variable and invariable aspects of Rembrandt's style 2. 'Self-portraits' produced by others in Rembrandt's workshop*3. The various functions of Rembrandt's self-portraits*; Different approaches to ordering; The danger of anachronism; Rembrandt's self-portraits andour innate tendency to read an expression into a face; Art lovers and the self-portrait in stock; Rembrandt's hundreds of self-portraits and the question of authentictiy; The drawn self-portraits (1629 -- 1660). Remarks on their possible function and authenticity*; The self-portraits of 1625-1640 revisited; -- The Leiden period (1625-1631) The painter and etcher as his most patient modelTechnical and pictorial studies; Studies of different facial expressions; ""Tronies'for which Rembrandt used himself as a model; -- The Leiden portraits of Rembrandt by Rembrandt; -- Rembrandt in Amsterdam (1631-1639); -- The etched in relation to the painted self-portraits; -Etched 'portraits of Rembradt' by Rembrandt"", aborted or incomplete; -- The painted self-portraits from the first decade in Amsterdam; The self-portraits infashionable attire (163 1-1633/34); The early Amsterdam self-portraits in historicizing costume (/633-1635) Summary Volume IV of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings deals uniquely with the self-portraits of Rembrandt. In a clearly written explanatory style the head of the Rembrandt Research Project and Editor of this Volume, Ernst van de Wetering, discusses the full body of work of paintings and etchings portraying Rembrandt. He sets the different parameters for accepting or rejecting a Rembrandt self-portrait as such, whilst also discussing the exact working environment of Rembrandt and his apprentices. This workshop setting created a surroundings where apprentices could be involved in working on Rembrandt pai Analysis kunst arts geschiedenis history schone kunsten fine arts Arts (General) Kunst (algemeen) Notes Print version record Subject Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 SUBJECT Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 fast Subject ART -- History -- General. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 ISBN 9781402044410 1402044410

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