A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings V: The Small-Scale History Paintings

Reveals profound insights into Rembrandt’s original views on painting and how these developed during his career
Adds new impetus to research on Rembrandt by presenting a detailed understanding of Rembrandt’s views on pictorial quality, together with an analysis of 17th-century categories of thought about painting
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Table of contents / Sample pages Preface.- Bibliographical and other Abbreviations.- Essays:.- I. Towards a Reconstruction of Rembrandt’s Art Theory.- II. An Illustrated Chronological Survey of Rembrandt’s Small-Scale ‘Histories’: Paintings, Etchings and a Selection of Drawings, with Remarks on Art-Theoretical Aspects, Function and Questions of Authenticity.- III. Rembrandt’s Prototypes and Pupils’ Production of Variants.- IV. On Quality: Comparative Remarks on the Functioning of Rembrandt’s Pictorial Mind.- V. More than One Hand in Paintings by Rembrandt.- Catalogue of the Small-Scale History and Genre Paintings 1642-1669 by Rembrandt and his Pupils.- Corrigenda et Addenda.- Indexes.