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.
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.
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 *
A capacious, generous book full of new ideas and information about
not only Rembrandt but also his life, his times and his
contemporaries. With Schama you look at a picture and see it as you
hadn't before -- Doris Lessing * Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
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With Rembrandt's Eyes, he has, as the cliche goes, found his
subject - a perfect match for his talent and sympathies...moving
and revealing...a Rembrandt very much for our time...[and] an
extremely coherent, satisfying work -- Alain de Botton *
Independent on Sunday *
[A] supreme contribution to art history -- Anita Brookner *
Spectator Books of the Year *
A bravura performance...Schama is an outstanding historian...In
this new book he brings to his perception of Rembrandt not only a
profound knowledge of the seventeenth century, but also a greedy
fascination with the material expression of culture in every nook
and cranny of life...Schama deepens and enriches our familiarity
with Rembrandt, and makes us understand more fully why he has often
been called the greatest painter of all time -- Frances Spalding *
Literary Review *
The Rembrandt riddle has now been tackled by that superbly gifted
historian, Simon Schama...Schama speaks as an expert, but he wears
his learning lightly; and few convey that learning more
felicitously or fluently...this book holds the attention and fires
the imagination...a portrait of the artist in the Baroque manner --
Roy Porter * Independent *
Sumptuous...Impassioned and learned, expansive and discursive,
Rembrandt's Eyes not only leaves us with a fierce appreciation of
the artist's work but also immerses us inexorably in his world --
Michiko Kakutani * The New York Times *
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