Rembrandt's Eyes

Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Super clean inside and out. In great shape. From the front flap: "...this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved--its sounds, smells, and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvanism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels...".

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