Rembrandt

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Rembrandt is among the few outstanding artists of universal appeal. Yet he remains an elusive figure, too often the subject of romantic interpretation. Christopher White, author of a number of highly regarded books on Rembrandt, firmly bases his study on the most thorough and up-to-date scholarly research, and builds up a sensitive, accurate and fully-rounded portrait of his life and work. The author describes the radiant happiness of Rembrandt's marriage, tragically cut short by the death of his wife, and discusses the catastrophe of his bankruptcy. He suggests the psychological factors that may have awakened Rembrandt's sudden interest in landscape, and sympathetically delineates the last decade of the artist's life, in which he retreated into the private world of his imagination.

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"Vivid, unsentimental biography . . . an admirable introduction to his paintings . . . astonishingly well illustrated." -- The Sunday Times

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Christopher White was Director of the Ashmolean Museum and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford from 1985 until 1997. He began his career in the Print Room of the British Museum. And, inter alia, held the post of Curator of Graphic Arts in the National Gallery of art, Washington. He has written widely on Dutch and Flemish art, particularly on Rembrandt. He has published catalogues of the Dutch and Flemish paintings and drawings in the Royal Collection