Mario Lepore – The Life and Times of Rembrandt

 

Hamlyn Publ. Group, Feltham, 2nd impression, 1970, hardcover, 76 pages.

 

“To this day a little street called the Weddesteeg which overlooks the Galgewater, a branch of the Old Rhine, can bes een in Leyden. In 1600 there was a mill facing this little street. Its owner was Harmen Gerritszoon who took his surname, van Rijn, from the name of the River.

 

He and his wife Neeltje Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck had seven children, five sons and two daughters. When their fifth son was born, on July 15, 1606, his parents gave him the unusual name of Renbrandt although they had chosen popular names of the period for their other children: Gerrit, Adriaen, Willem, Cornelis, Machteld and Lijsbeth. Perhaps this unusual name was a reflection of the miller’s hope that, now he had achieved moderate wealth his youngest son would take up a career which would improve the family’s social position.”

 

This is how ‘The Life and Times of Rembrandt’ starts.

 

The book contains:

The miller’s son from Leyden

The long Netherlands uprising

A society thirsty for art

Rembrandt abandons his studies for art

The ‘Italian’ lessons given by his teachers

Rembrandt begins by working with Lievens

Rembrandt’s first Works find favour

He recognizes the good and evil in man

The Classical World has little interest for Rembrandt

Prosperity in Amsterdam

Rembrandt meets and marries Saskia

Rembrandt’s love of elegance and luxury

In Saskia he sees the image of Beauty

The importance of ‘The Anatomy Lesson’

Opulence of the Dutch

Exoticism of the Port of Amsterdam

Rembrandt’s transformation of reality

Great themes from the scriptures

His imagination is stirred by stories from the Bible

“The Night Watch”

A sense of movement in “The Night Watch”

Rembrandt’s paintings of Gospel stories

He portrays Christ the man

Realism imbued with poetry

A dramatic turning point in Rembrandt’s life

The significance of the inventory

Hendrickje, his faithful companion, stays by his side

A great draughtsman and a briljant engraver

A landscape painter who never travelled

Rembrandt’s venerable philosophers

Two magnificent fragments

Dutch civic spirit in Rembrandt’s last masterpiece

His studio becomes a stronghold against adversity

His pupils became outstanding painters

Inspiration through personal grief

A solitary death in degnified poverty.

 

Foxing on several pages, spine bleached, dustjacket missing, otherwise in good condition.

 

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