· This item: Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama () by Simon Schama Hardcover $ Only 2 left in stock - order soon. Ships from and sold by KIT-US STORE/5(). 8 rows · · SIMON SCHAMA has taught history at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard universities, was art critic Edition description: Reissue. "When Rembrandt made eyes," Schama says, "he did so purposefully," and so in Rembrandt's Eyes he continually returns to the haunting eyes the painter www.doorway.ru of all, Schama's book is a meditative, entranced attempt to get behind the faces we see in Rembrandt's self-portraits. Schama reads Rembrandt's self-portraits in various costumes -- as a merchant, as a soldier, for example -- as Cited by:
Writer and professor Simon Schama had that honor when he lectured on his book, Rembrandt's Eyes, at a TC BookTalk held at the Guggenheim Museum in November. The audience that filled the Peter Lewis Theatre to capacity, a record-breaking one for the BookTalk series, also testified to his distinction. Rembrandt's Eyes By SIMON SCHAMA Knopf. Read the Review. Rembrandt had taken to painting himself in armor. Not the full body suit. No one except cuirassiers, who were vulnerable to being jabbed by pikemen below the crupper, went in for that anymore. But every so often Rembrandt liked to wear his gorget. It was a hinged collar-piece, covering. REMBRANDT'S EYES By Simon Schama. IIlustrated. pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $ imon Schama's biblically proportioned ''Rembrandt's Eyes'' proceeds from the assumption that Rembrandt's reputation needs a little boost. Rembrandt, Schama says, is wrongly considered to have been an unintellectual painter, a conformist; and with scholars.
By Simon Schama. Knopf. $ According to Simon Schama, “Making an eye was the beginning of art.”. In this exhaustive biography of Rembrandt van Rijn, Schama reflects on representations of the. Rembrandt’s Eyes by Simon Schama. This is a remarkable book. Ostensibly a biography of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, it is also a fascinating study of Rembrandt’s work and techniques, as well as a mini-biography of Peter Paul Rubens—whose paintings and reputation would dog Rembrandt for his entire life and continue to do so to this day—and a kind of political and religious history of the Netherlands before, during and after Rembrandt’s life. Verified Purchase. Beautifully written in depth assessment of Rembrandt's life and work by art historian Simon Schama. The author explains Rembrandt in the context of his times, including a comparison of the works of Peter Paul Rubens, among other masters. Beautifully reproduced images.
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