Simon Schama

Rembrandt's Eyes

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Produktbeschreibung

This dazzling, unconventional biography shows us why, more than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on our imagination. Deeply familiar to us through his enigmatic self-portraits, few facts are known about the Leiden miller's son who tasted brief fame before facing financial ruin (he was even forced to sell his beloved wife Saskia's grave). The true biography of Rembrandt, as Simon Schama demonstrates, is to be discovered in his pictures. Interweaving of seventeenth-century Holland, Schama allows us to see Rembrandt in a completely fresh and original way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 396171
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 192mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 2006g
• ISBN-13: 9780141979533
• ISBN-10: 0141979534
• Artikelnr.: 40858203

Autorenporträt

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, including The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, the History of Britain trilogy and The Story of the Jews. He is a contributing editor of the Financial Times and his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-part A History of Britain and the eight-part, Emmy-winning Power of Art.

Rezensionen

Its skill at reconstructing the artist and his age suggests that we no longer need look only towards novelists and poets for "creative" writing. The music of history and biography can be equally powerful Peter Ackroyd The Times