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<p>Throughout 2006, all the world will celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest portrait painters that ever lived, the Dutch seventeenth-century master Rembrandt. (The exhibition <I>Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings</I> alone, which opens in November at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is one of the most highly anticipated of the decade and is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors.) Although Rembrandt is among the most important artists in Western history, and perhaps our greatest draftsman, no one has ever, until now, been able to pinpoint exactly how it was that he so precisely and effortlessly captured the spiritual essence of his subjects.<p>This thrilling, insightful, sophisticated and yet accessible illustrated reading-format study, written by the preeminent scholar and translator Michael Taylor, will be as enlightening and delightful to Rembrandt scholars as to lay readers. Taylor looks at Rembrandt's self-portraits, his society portraits, historical paintings and biblical scenes, and identifies how it was that the artist rendered his subjects so alive, so full of earthy, flesh-and-blood vitali

Who reads Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master's Portraits?

Author

Michael Taylor; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Publisher

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781933045443

Category

art

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, History

Rating

3.57 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14