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The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9053566244, 9789053566244, 9781423785170
Open Library ID
OL12808272M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11145285 bytes)
Pages
388\389
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Rembrandt's life and art had an almost mythic resonance in nineteenth-century France with artists, critics, and collectors alike using his artistic persona both as a benchmark and as justification for their own goals. This first in-depth study of the traditional critical reception of Rembrandt reveals the preoccupation with his perceived "authenticity," "naturalism," and "naivet?," demonstrating how the artist became an ancestral figure, a talisman with whom others aligned themselves to increase the value of their own work. And in a concluding chapter, the author looks at the play Rembrandt, staged in Paris in 1898, whose production and advertising are a testament to the enduring power of the artist's myth.

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