Description
Edited by Lloyd DeWitt. Contributors: Mark S. Tucker, Seymour Slive, Blaise Ducos, Franziska Gottwald, George Keyes, Shelley Perlove, Larry Silver, Ken Sutherland
With the creation of the dramatic Supper at Emmaus (Louvre) and a series of intimate oil sketches of Christ on oak panels, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) overturned the entire history of Christian art. Traditionally, when depicting Christ, artists had relied on rigidly copied prototypes and icons. Among Rembrandt's innovations was his use of a Jewish model to portray a Christ imbued with empathy, gentleness, grace, and faithfulness to nature.
Lavishly illustrated, this captivating and important book presents the seven known panels, along with more than 60 paintings, drawings, and prints by Rembrandt and his pupils. Essays by expert contributors offer insights into the production of the panels and their relationship to other works in Rembrandt's oeuvre; how he changed the meaning and status of the canonical image of Christ in northern European art; and much more. Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus is a marvelously intriguing study of how one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age revolutionized an aspect of art history dating to antiquity.
About the Authors:
Lloyd DeWitt is Associate Curator in the Department of European Painting Before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Ken Sutherland is Conservation Scientist and Mark Tucker is Vice Chairman of Conservation, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Editor: Lloyd DeWitt
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011
- 256 pages, 12"x 10"
- 130 color and 20 black and white illustrations
- ISBN: 9780876332276
