Rembrandt and the Female Nude 1st Edition by Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ISBN 9053568379 9789053568378

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ISBN 10: 9053568379

ISBN 13: 9789053568378

Author: Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 

Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes—Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba—as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical—even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt and the Female Nude, examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the background of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands and Italy. Exploring Rembrandt’s intense dialogue with the works of predecessors and peers, Sluijter demonstrates that, more than any other artist, Rembrandt set out to incite the greatest possible empathy in the viewer, an approach that had far-reaching consequences for the moral and erotic implications of the subjects Rembrandt chose to depict.

            In this richly illustrated study, Sluijter presents an innovative approach to Rembrandt’s views on the art of painting, his attitude towards antiquity and Italian art of the Renaissance, his sustained rivalry with the works of other artists, his handling of the moral and erotic issues inherent in subjects with female nudes, and the nature of his artistic choices.  

Table of contents:

1. Preface and Acknowledgments
2. Introduction
3. Andromeda Chained to the Rock
4. Intermezzo: Rembrandt and the Depiction of the Passions
5. Susanna and the Elders
6. Diana and Her Nymphs Surprised by Actaeon
7. Coloring
8. Danaë
9. Intermezzo: Imitation, Artistic Competition and Rapen
10. Modeling the Nude
11. Intermezzo: The Nude, the Artist and the Female Model
12. Bathsheba Contemplating King David’s Letter

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