Those very few who are truly great artists communicate in their works more than the excellence of genius. Their art shows their unwavering engagement in the process of life and courage hard won on the battlefield of the soul. Rembrandt was one such as these. In his life he achieved great fame, was afflicted by great tragedies. He died poor and practically alone. But in the heigh of his worldly fame he never forgot the inner face of things and in the hour of his greatest personal trials, his art still resounds with affirmation. Perhaps in technical ability this man is unsurpassed but more important, the quality of his life reflected in his art has served as a model for those who have come after. This book contains 35 pages of biography followed by aproximately 90 full-color plates on high quality gloss stock which chronicle the life and career of Harmensz Rembrandt van Rijn to whom the world knew simply as Rembrandt.
