Recommendations from our site
“There are dozens of books about Rembrandt, hundreds, actually, but Gary Schwartz’s book stands out for me, because it is an attempt to see Rembrandt for the genius that he undoubtedly was, but in the social context in which he operated. And for me, as a social and economic historian, what is also interesting is Schwartz’s interest in what you might call the ‘business model’. How does Rembrandt earn an income? And what impact has the fact that he loses many of his patrons in the course of his career had on the work that we now have?” Read more...
The best books on The Dutch Golden Age
Maarten Prak, Historian
“Reconstructing the literary and cultural climate of Rembrandt’s day, Schwartz reveals the artist in all his humanity.” Read more...
Onno Blom, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Our most recommended books
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
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Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Book of the Courtier
by Baldesar Castiglione -
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
by Svetlana Alpers -
David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years
by Michael Luke
