Young Rembrandt : a biography

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Label

Young Rembrandt : a biography

Title remainder

a biography

Statement of responsibility

Onno Blom ; translated from the Dutch by Beverley Jackson

Creator

• trueBlom, Onno

Contributor

• Jackson, Beverley

Author

• trueBlom, Onno

Translator

• Jackson, Beverley

Subject

• trueDutch
• trueDutch people
• Netherlands
• trueNetherlands -- Civilization -- 17th century
• trueNetherlands -- Social life and customs
• truePainters
• Painters -- Netherlands
• Painters -- Netherlands -- Biography
• truePainting, Dutch
• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
• Painters
• Biographies
• Biographies
• trueChildhood

Genre

• trueBiography
• Biographies

Language

• eng
• dut
• eng

Summary

"A captivating exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years by a prize-winning biographer. Rembrandt van Rijn's early years are as famously shrouded in mystery as Shakespeare's, and his life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist of his age? How in short, did Rembrandt become Rembrandt? Seeking the roots of Rembrandt's genius, the celebrated Dutch writer Onno Blom immersed himself in Leiden, the city in which Rembrandt was born in 1606 and where he spent his first twenty-five years. It was a turbulent time, the city having only recently rebelled against the Spanish. There are almost no written records by or about Rembrandt, so Blom tracked down old maps, sought out the Rembrandt family house and mill, and walked the route that Rembrandt would have taken to school. Leiden was a bustling center of intellectual life, and Blom, a native of Leiden himself, brings to life all the places Rembrandt would have known: the university, library, botanical garden, and anatomy theater. He investigated the concerns and tensions of the era: burial rites for plague victims, the renovation of the city in the wake of the Spanish siege, the influx of immigrants to work the cloth trade. And he examined the origins and influences that led to the famous and beloved paintings that marked the beginning of Rembrandt's celebrated career as the paramount painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Young Rembrandt is a fascinating portrait of the artist and the world that made him. Evocatively told and beautifully illustrated with more than 100 color images, it is a superb biography that captures Rembrandt for a new generation"--

Member of

• Jonge Rembrandt

Writing style

• trueThoughtful
• trueWell-researched

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 759.9492
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

ND653.R4

LC item number

B5713 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography