Rembrandt's Amsterdam : golden times? /
"Rembrandt's outstanding portraits of his hometown, Amsterdam, reflect the city's light and shadow. During the seventeenth century, Amsterdam became one of the leading economic centers in Europe. The city and its population grew rapidly as trade and art also flourished. The influentia...
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München :
Hirmer,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Forewords / Nick Jue and Sylvia von Metzler
- Director's preface / Philipp Demandt
- Introduction / Jochen Sander
- Rembrandt's Amsterdam: Boomtown and hub of international trade / Jochen Sander
- For whom and why?: On the origin and usefulness of the term "Golden Age" / Tom van der Molen
- For adornment and remembrance: The group portrait in seventeenth-century Amsterdam / Norbert E. Middelkoop
- Ranks and classes: Amsterdam group portraits and social hierarchy / Norbert E. Middelkoop
- Profane pictures of the seven works of mercy: The group portraits of the Aalmoezeniershuis / Corinna Gannon
- United vigilance: Militia pieces in sixteenth-century Amsterdam / Norbert E. Middelkoop
- So painterly in thought, so dashing in movement: Rembrandt's The Night Watch and the Amsterdam Civic-Guard portraits of the seventeenth century / Tom van der Molen
- Care in the Amsterdam Burgerweeshuis: Burgher orphans as wards and pride of the city elite / Friederike Schütt
- Art of healing: The Amsterdam surgeons and their anatomy lessons / Norbert E.Middelkoop
- Elsje Christiaens and Rembrandt / Stephanie S. Dickey
- Beggars, paupers, vagabonds: Rembrandt's etchings / Astrid Reuter
- A punishment more bitter than death: The Amsterdam prison-workhouse Rasphuis and Spinhuis as places of social disciplining / Jochen Sander and Kambis Zahedi.