Rembrandt's Roughness

(Hardback)

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Roughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the imagination of the beholder. Rembrandt's Roughness examines how the artist's unconventional technique pushed the possibilities of painting into startling a

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"[A] very ambitious book that analyzes Rembrandts main works . . . [it] certainly made me look with new eyes at some of the best-known paintings and prints of the Dutch golden age."---Thijs Weststeij, The Art Bulletin

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Nicola Suthor is professor in the history of art at Yale University.