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Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity

H. Perry Chapman

3/5 ( ratings)

H. Perry Chapman has produced the first comprehensive treatment of the entire body of Rembrandt's self-portraits in their cultural and historical setting and in the context of the artist's life. Prevailing scholarship has tried to discredit the idea that the self-portraits stemmed from any particular inner need, but Chapman counters by presenting fascinating evidence that they represent a conscious and progressive quest for individual identity in a truly modern sense. H. Perry Chapman, in my view, gives us the Rembrandt we need in the 1990s. . . . [Her] sensitivity to questions of style and expression, combined with original research, leads to a conclusion . . . that `Rembrandt's lifelong preoccupation with self-portraiture can be seen as a necessary process of identity formation or self-definition'--in short, autobiography.--Walter Liedtke, The Journal of Art Chapman is a graceful writer. Her arguments are balanced, well documented, and vigorously pursued. . . . The publication of this book is cause for gratitude and joy.--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Pages: 361

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: November 19, 1992

ISBN: 0691002967

ISBN 13: 9780691002965

Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity

H. Perry Chapman

3/5 ( ratings)

H. Perry Chapman has produced the first comprehensive treatment of the entire body of Rembrandt's self-portraits in their cultural and historical setting and in the context of the artist's life. Prevailing scholarship has tried to discredit the idea that the self-portraits stemmed from any particular inner need, but Chapman counters by presenting fascinating evidence that they represent a conscious and progressive quest for individual identity in a truly modern sense. H. Perry Chapman, in my view, gives us the Rembrandt we need in the 1990s. . . . [Her] sensitivity to questions of style and expression, combined with original research, leads to a conclusion . . . that `Rembrandt's lifelong preoccupation with self-portraiture can be seen as a necessary process of identity formation or self-definition'--in short, autobiography.--Walter Liedtke, The Journal of Art Chapman is a graceful writer. Her arguments are balanced, well documented, and vigorously pursued. . . . The publication of this book is cause for gratitude and joy.--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Pages: 361

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: November 19, 1992

ISBN: 0691002967

ISBN 13: 9780691002965

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