Rembrandt, the Nightwatch
A landmark book that casts critical light on one of Rembrandt's most iconic paintingsIn The Nightwatch, Rembrandt turns his portrayal of eighteen prominent Amsterdam citizens as members of a militia company into one of the world's most fascinating works of art, one that evokes censure as w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1982.
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| Series: | Princeton essays on the arts ;
12. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | A landmark book that casts critical light on one of Rembrandt's most iconic paintingsIn The Nightwatch, Rembrandt turns his portrayal of eighteen prominent Amsterdam citizens as members of a militia company into one of the world's most fascinating works of art, one that evokes censure as well as praise. The painting, however, was not an eccentric vision but a thoughtful reworking of a longstanding tradition of militia portraiture. In this classic book, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann shows how Rembrandt chose motifs, colors, actions, and setting to emphasize the historic role of the militia in Amsterdam and the social standing of the men portrayed, and how contemporary viewers associated costumes and actions with events of the past and familiar circumstances of the period when the painting was made. Meticulously reconstructing the artist's intentions and the viewer's response, Haverkamp-Begemann sheds critical light on the startling young woman in gold and other visual elements of this remarkable work. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [115]-132. |
| ISBN: | 9780691264905 0691264902 |