Rembrandt Self-Portraits

by Christopher Wright

Rembrandt van Rijn created in his long lifetime nearly 100 self-portraits, a stunning obsessive series unparalleled in the history of art. Here, in chronological order, are all of the known... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670593567
• ISBN13: 9780670593569
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 133 Pages

Customer Reviews

The story of a life as a series of masterpieces

Rembrandt is in my feeling the most human of artists. His self- portraits trace the story of his own life development. From the wild youth of the beginning to the aged and broken figure at the end we see in them the course of a person's life. But more than this . In certain of these portraits one thinks of the Rembrandt self- portrait in the Frick where he sits as king and master of his world of art one feels the deepest human insight and expression of genius. The story of a life is the story of a great soul even when posing and looking in another direction. Rembrandt's own tragic story has its reflection in the whole deepening shadow and distance of the central subject in time. To make the story of one's life a series of masterpieces is a unique achievement in the history of art. And no one not even Rembrandt's countryman Van Gogh will come close to equalling it. This is a great book to have because it contains the images of masterpieces made by one whose life was a succession of such great works.