448 Pages
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Routledge
448 Pages
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Routledge
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Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes – Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and Her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba – as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians, but they have also elicited vehement criticism. They were considered against-the-grain, anti-classical, even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects,... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Andromeda Chained to the Rock, 3 Intermezzo: Rembrandt and the Depiction of the Passions in the 1620s and 1630s, 4 Susanna and the Elders,66 5 Intermezzo: Images of the Nude: Moral Disapproval and Erotic Impact, 6 Diana and Her Nymphs Surprised by Actaeon and the Discovery of Callisto's Pregnancy, 7 Intermezzo: Rembrandt and Notions about Art: 'Coloring; and the 'From Life' Ideology, 8 Danaë, 9 Intermezzo: Imitation, Artistic Competition and Rapen, 10 Prints and Related Drawings: Modeling the Nude, 11 Intermezzo: The Nude, the Artist, and the Female Model, 12 Bathsheba Contemplating King David's Letter.
Biography
Eric Jan Sluijter is professor of the History of Renaissance and Early Modern Art at the University of Amsterdam and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
