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Author | : Steven Nadler |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 022636061X |
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There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries. Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing tour of Jewish Amsterdam—which begins in 1653 as workers are repairing Rembrandt's Portuguese-Jewish neighbor's house and completely disrupting the artist's life and livelihood—Steven Nadler tells us the stories of the artist's portraits of Jewish sitters, of his mundane and often contentious dealings with his neighbors in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, and of the tolerant setting that city provided for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews fleeing persecution in other parts of Europe. As Nadler shows, Rembrandt was only one of a number of prominent seventeenth-century Dutch painters and draftsmen who found inspiration in Jewish subjects. Looking at other artists, such as the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael and Emmanuel de Witte, a celebrated painter of architectural interiors, Nadler is able to build a deep and complex account of the remarkable relationship between Dutch and Jewish cultures in the period, evidenced in the dispassionate, even ordinary ways in which Jews and their religion are represented—far from the demonization and grotesque caricatures, the iconography of the outsider, so often found in depictions of Jews during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Through his close look at paintings, etchings, and drawings; in his discussion of intellectual and social life during the Dutch Golden Age; and even through his own travels in pursuit of his subject, Nadler takes the reader through Jewish Amsterdam then and now—a trip that, under ever-threatening Dutch skies, is full of colorful and eccentric personalities, fiery debates, and magnificent art.
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Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
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ISBN | : 9780271048383 |
Download Rembrandt's Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Zell |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2002-03-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520227417 |
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"This book embeds Rembrandt's art in the pluralistic religious context of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, arguing for the restoration of this historical dimension to contemporary discussions of the artists. By incorporating this perspective, Zell confirms and revises one of the most forceful myths attached to Rembrandt's art and life: his presumed attraction and sensitivity to the Jews of early modern Amsterdam."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Mirjam Knotter (kunsthistorica.) |
Publisher | : Waanders Publishers |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
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Investigates Rembrandt's connection with Judaism.
Author | : Anthony M. Amore |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0230337422 |
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Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg's Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world - from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio - the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums. There are robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings; self-styled art experts who fall in love with the Dutch master and desire to own his art at all costs; and international criminal masterminds who don't hesitate to resort to violence. They also show how museums are thwarted in their ability to pursue the thieves - even going so far as to conduct investigations on their own, far away from the maddening crowd of police intervention, sparing no expense to save the priceless masterpieces. Stealing Rembrandts is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind look at the black market of art theft, and how it compromises some of the greatest treasures the world has ever known.
Author | : Franz Landsberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Catherine M. Soussloff |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520920678 |
Download Jewish Identity in Modern Art History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse. At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of scholarship. Contributors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers and artists alike through such topics as exile, iconoclasm, and anti-Semitism. Included are essays on Anselm Kiefer and Theodor Adorno; the effects of the Enlightenment; the rise of the nation-state; Nazi policies on art history; the criticism of Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, and Aby Warburg; the art of Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin, and Morris Gottlieb; and Jewish patronage of German Expressionist art. Offering a new approach to the history of art in which the cultural identities of the makers and interpreters play a constitutive role, this collection begins an important and overdue dialogue that will have a significant impact on the fields of art history, Jewish studies, and cultural studies.
Author | : Aaron Rosen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351563203 |
Download Imagining Jewish Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Short-listed for the Art and Christian Enquiry/Mercers' International Book Award 2009: 'a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts'. What does modern Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and other traditional subjects, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is- by and large - non-Jewish? In this new book we encounter some of the great works of Western art history through Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913-1980), and images by Diego Velazquez and Paul Cezanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007). This highly comparative study draws on theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth. Rosen deepens our understanding not only of Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj but also of how art might serve as a key resource for rethinking such fundamental Jewish concepts as family, tradition, and homeland.
Author | : Paul Crenshaw |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2006-02-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521858259 |
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Examines the causes, circumstances, and effects of the 1656 bankruptcy by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Author | : Helen Tolstoy |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2016-11-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004335323 |
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In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy offers a new view of controversial Silver Age critic Akim Volynsky by presenting him as an influential theater figure and, in his later years, as a Russian-Jewish thinker.