Lives of Rembrandt

Filippo Baldinucci, Joachim von Sandrart, Arnold Houbraken , Charles Ford

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English

Pallas Athene
01 July 2023

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Lives of the Artists

Never before available complete in English, the three major contemporary sources for the life of Rembrandt.

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the seventeenth century and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emotional truth and reckless disregard of artistic convention astonished, delighted and often dismayed his contemporaries, and the full gamut of these reactions is revealed in the three early biographies published here for the first time in their entirety in English. Sandrart, a German painter and writer on painting, actually knew Rembrandt in Amsterdam; Baldinucci, also an artist contemporary with Rembrandt, was one of the greatest early connoisseurs of prints; and Arnold Houbraken, who studied under some of Rembrandt's pupils, wrote the earliest major biographical account of the artists of Holland. These extraordinary documents give a vivid picture of Rembrandt's shattering impact on the art world of his time not only as a painter, but as a supremely successful manipulator of the market, a dangerous example to the young, and an unavoidable challenge to any sense of decorum and rule-giving. Rooted firmly in the seventeenth-century realities of Rembrandt's life, they bring into sharper focus the qualities of originality and psychological acuity that remain Rembrandt's trademark to this day.

The introduction by Charles Ford situates these biographies in the context of seventeenth-century appreciation of art, and the trajectory of Rembrandt's career. The translations have been specially prepared for this edition by Charles Ford, aided by Ulrike Kern and Francesca Migliorini, and in part following the work of Tancred Borenius.

Charles Ford is a lecturer in art history at University College London, where his special subject is Dutch seventeenth-century art. He has translated a number of Dutch texts and is currently working on representations of commerce, trade and corruption in the later early modern period.

55 colour illustrations

By: Filippo Baldinucci, Joachim von Sandrart, Arnold Houbraken
Edited by: Charles Ford
Imprint: Pallas Athene
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 122g
ISBN: 9781843681045
ISBN 10: 1843681048
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Charles Ford is a lecturer in art history at University College London, where his special subject is Dutch seventeenth-century art. He has translated a number of Dutch texts, and is currently working on representations of commerce, trade and corruption in the later early modern period.

Reviews for Lives of Rembrandt

""The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication."" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews