HSC Visual Art - Case studies: Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn: The J. Paul Getty Museum website

Rembrandt, a monograph : The Visual Media Centre, Department of Art History, Columbia University

Rembrandt's Journey : Exhibiton Themes : Art Institute of Chicago website

Rembrandt and Psychology : Reflections on The Return of the Prodigal Son : Trinity International University website

Rembrandt , Picasso's Artistic Father

Rembrandt's Letters to Huygens :Art Humanities Primary Reading Source 30 : Columbia University website

Encyclopedia entries:

“…Rembrandt combined theory and practice, inventing, for instance, a new kind of painting, the ‘tronie’ or portrait head, ….. a compromise between portraiture and history painting. …” from Grove Art Online, accessible via Wollongong City Council databases

“…It remained for Rembrandt to move away from linear to painterly evocation of form in etching…” from Grove Art Online, accessible via Wollongong City Council databases

Journal Articles:

“…..like his painting, Rembrandt's styleof drawing owes as much to his cultural and intellectual environment as to the idiosyncrasies of his temperament…” from ‘Origins and Meanings of Rembrandt’s late drawing style’

falseCourtright, N, 1996, The Art Bulletin, vol. 78, no. 3, September, p. 485, Proquest database, accessible via Wollongong City Council databases

“…Yet for the most part Rembrandt quickly abandoned Lastman's learned, archaeological rendering of historical sites for a more naturally suggestive style of historical narrative in which moving, emoting, psychologically present figures come to the fore while settings recede and become evocative rather than descriptive….”

Chapman, H P, 2005,  ‘Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History/Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, falseThe Art Bulletin, vol. 87, no. 2, June, pp. 346-352, Proquest database, accessible via Wollongong City Council databases