Rembrandt's Universe 伦勃朗

Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories.
In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been difficult to compile, and there has long been debate over the precise number of works that can be absolutely attributed to the great master. Distilling centuries of debate into a single volume is no small task, but Gary Schwartz provides a completely accessible overview of the central controversies and mysteries surrounding Rembrandt and his masterpieces. In addition,Schwartz addresses the more particular aspects of Rembrandt scholarship: the painter's personal relationships; his finances; his artistic influences;his choice of subject matter; his techniques.
For the newcomer, Schwartz's text is eminently readable and packed with information about the painter and interpretations of his work; the seasoned Rembrandt veteran will find a nimble,pleasing treatment of scholarship to date. With more full-colour reproductions of Rembrandt's work than any other collection, Rembrandt's Universe is a definitive text - on Rembrandt,and on art.
　　作者简介：Gary Schwartz is one of today's best-known writers on Dutch art. He was born and raised in New York but has lived in the Netherlands for most of his life. As an art historian he has written numerous specialist articles and books, but also books for the general public and children, including a prize-winning volume on Rembrandt. He writes a popular column on museums and art history in the Dutch daily Het Financieele Dagblad and is the webmaster of two highly regarded art-historical websites.

1 Introduction
The Rembrandt facts
Caveat lector: an instructive case
Taking our terms from Rembrandt
2 A Dutch artist's life
The Republic
Leiden
Artistic traditions inherited
A brief life of Rembrandt
Key dates
Art and faith
3 Family, loved ones,households
The vanishing van Rijns and ascendant Uylenburghs
Saskia
Hendrickje
Titus
Households
4 Craft
The studio
An illustrated glossary of Rembrandt's drawing techniques
Drawings
Pen and ink
Ink and wash
White watercolor or body color
Dry media
Black chalk
Charcoal
Red chalk
Silverpoint
Mixed media
Mechanical treatments
Techniques not used
An illustrated glossary of Rembrandt's etching techniques
Rembrandt's technique as a painter
Support and primin
The paint layers
Form
Color
Light
Observation
Preparatory drawings
Storytelling
The non finito look
5 Earning and spending
6 Patroms
7 Landscape
8 Humankind
9 Man and God
Afterlife
Rembrandt as a Christian rhetorician of the brush
References
Index to works by Rembrandt
General index
Photographic credits