Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship

Keyes, George S ; Tom Rassieur; Dennis P Weller; Jon L Seydl; North Carolina Museum of Art.; et al.

ISBN 10: 0847836851 / ISBN 13: 9780847836857

Edité par Cleveland Museum of Art ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; NCMA; Skira Rizzoli Publications, Cleveland; Minneapolis; Raleigh; New York, 2011

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Dark chocolate cloth boards, brown-tone pictorial dust jacket. 224 pp. Profuse color plates and figures. The singular 17th-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn contributed some of the most important and beguiling paintings to the history of Western art. This richly illustrated volume gathers some fifty of the finest paintings by the Dutch master and his followers from private and public collections across America, to tell the intriguing and often controversial story of the collecting and connoisseurship of Rembrandt paintings in America. Contents as follows: Rembrandt paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Rembrandt in the seventeenth century /; Tom Rassieur --; Rembrandt paintings and America /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's Leiden years : mastering his craft and defining his genius /; Tom Rassieur --; The elusive nature of portraiture : Rembrandt as a portraitist in Amsterdam /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's history paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Catalogue of the exhibition --; Appendix :; Rembrandt painting exhibitions in North America : 1892-2011.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship
• Éditeur: Cleveland Museum of Art ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; NCMA; Skira Rizzoli Publications, Cleveland; Minneapolis; Raleigh; New York
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0847836851
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780847836857
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: VG+/VG
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • European Artists

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Synopsis

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition bringing together the best Rembrandt paintings from American collections. The great seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the most important painters in the history of European art. This richly illustrated volume gathers some fifty of the finest paintings by the Dutch master and his followers from private and public collections across America, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Rembrandt had an uncanny ability to depict light and shadow, and to capture the emotions of his sitters. In addition to his portraits, he is also known for historical scenes. Highlighting the authentic Rembrandts in America during the late nineteenth century’s Gilded Age, a time when American tycoons cultivated a passion for collecting European masterpieces, the book also features fifteen to twenty works that were originally attributed to the master’s hand but are now recognized as paintings by his successors, contemporary followers, and later imitators.
An introduction focusing on Rembrandt as a cultural phenomenon is followed by essays devoted to his life, the controversy associated with his workshop, and the pursuit of Rembrandt in America.  Published in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

À propos de l'auteur

Dennis P. Weller is curator of Northern European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. George S. Keyes is former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tom Rassieur is curator of prints and drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.