Rembrandt's masterful Bathsheba Reading King David's Letter is unusual both as a history painting and as a portrayal of a nude. Instead of displaying a sumptuous body for the viewer's delectation, Bathsheba elicits our empathy. This collection of essays by six leading Rembrandt scholars examines its qualities from perspectives ranging from changing perceptions of female beauty and the nude, to technical analysis, and biographical and psychological analysis of the artist, the subject, and the viewer.
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"Ann Adams's introduction deftly presents current Rembrandt studies and critical presentation of the following essays, making the connections and distinctions in theit approaches. For students, this sampling of approaches with respect to a single art work is a rich opportunity to gain access to the discipline of art history, which is, by its definition and essence, interdisciplinary in material and methodology." Amy Golahny, Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter
"...essential reading not only for their respective pictures, but for their respective artists...the essays work collectively to round out understanding of a key work and remind us of why scholarly attention has created a canon." Renaissance Quarterly
"...essential reading not only for their respective pictures, but for their respective artists...the essays work collectively to round out understanding of a key work and remind us of why scholarly attention has created a canon." Renaissance Quarterly
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Rembrandt's masterful Bathsheba Reading King David's Letter is unusual both as a history painting and as portrayal of a nude. Instead of displaying a sumptuous body for the viewer's delectation, Bathsheba elicits our empathy. This collection of essays by six leading Rembrandt scholars examines its qualities from perspectives ranging from changing perceptions of female beauty and the nude, technical analysis, and biographical and psychological analysis of the artist, the subject, and the viewer.
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For many, Rembrandt's Bathsheba in Paris is one of the most fascinating and moving works by the master (Fig. 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Rembrandt's Bathsheba, The Hague, King David, National Gallery, Eric Jan Sluijter, Jan Six, Old Testament, Gary Schwartz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, Jan Kelch, Ernst Van de Wetering, Horst Gerson, Jacob Cats, Jacques Foucart, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Hendrickje Stoffels, Jacob van Loo, Jan Lievens, Kenneth Clark, Louvre Bathsheba, Willem Drost, Abraham Bredius, Alte Meister New!
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For many, Rembrandt's Bathsheba in Paris is one of the most fascinating and moving works by the master (Fig. 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exhib cat, antique relief, visual tradition, genre labels, female nude, history painting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rembrandt's Bathsheba, The Hague, King David, National Gallery, Eric Jan Sluijter, Jan Six, Old Testament, Gary Schwartz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, Jan Kelch, Ernst Van de Wetering, Horst Gerson, Jacob Cats, Jacques Foucart, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Hendrickje Stoffels, Jacob van Loo, Jan Lievens, Kenneth Clark, Louvre Bathsheba, Willem Drost, Abraham Bredius, Alte Meister New!
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- Rembrandt by Rembrandt on 8 pages
- A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings (Set vols 1-3) (Rembrandt Research Project Foundation) (v. 1-3) by J. Bruyn in Front Matter, page 58, and page 142
- The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) by Apuleius on page 164, and page 173
- The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics) by Apuleius on page 164, and page 173
- The Golden Ass (Dodo Press) by Lucius Apuleius on page 164, and page 173
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- Key Monuments of the Baroque (Icon Edition) by Laurie Schneider Adams in Back Matter
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