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Rembrandt - his life, his work, and his time (1903) (14598481548)
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Title: Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Michel, Emile, 1828-1909 Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921
Subjects: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Publisher: London : Heinemann New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive
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-..Wl.,11 ,■-»• » ^1 STUDY Fi Pen and wash. 1641 (Stockholm Print Room). staff in hand; and embracesreverence. The young her girl someThe goose, some fowls, ath(; handling equalsfalls full on the twoscene, and the peacock on a wall. The easy elegancethe charm of the chiaroscuro. Thewomen, the central group of the cheerfulspectators attention is at once riveted on them. light Elizabeths somewhat sombre dress, and the shadow cast onher face by her yellowish wimple, accentuate the brilliant figureof the Virgin, the flower-like freshness and harmony of her
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The Carpenters Household (1640). (louvre.) MANOAHS PRAYER 205 many-tinted garments, the sweet refinement of her innocent face,and the dehcate bloom of a complexion pink and transparent as abriar-rose. In 1641 Rembrandt executed a more important work, the Alanoa/isPrayer in the Dresden Gallery. The subject was one to which hewas anxious to do justice, for he made two preliminary drawings forthis picture ; one is in the Stockholm Print Room, the other in theBerlin Museum. The composition in the former, the more finished
By the last decades of the 16th century, the refined Mannerism style had ceased to be an effective means of religious art expression. Catholic Church fought against Protestant Reformation to re-establish its dominance in European art by infusing Renaissance aesthetics enhanced by a new exuberant extravagance and penchant for the ornate. The new style was coined Baroque and roughly coincides with the 17th century. Baroque emphasizes dramatic motion, clear, easily interpreted grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, dynamism, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and details, and often defined as being bizarre, or uneven. The term Baroque likely derived from the Italian word barocco, used by earlier scholars to name an obstacle in schematic logic to denote a contorted idea or involuted process of thought. Another possible source is the Portuguese word barroco (Spanish barrueco), used to describe an irregular or imperfectly shaped pearl, and this usage still survives in the jeweler’s term baroque pearl. Baroque spread across Europe led by the Pope in Rome and powerful religious orders as well as Catholic monarchs to Northern Italy, France, Spain, Flanders, Portugal, Austria, southern Germany, and colonial South America.
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