Rembrandt's Eyes (Simon Schama)
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Simon Schama reconstructs Rembrandt’s life through close attention to his pictures.
The book connects artistic choices with the people, institutions, and pressures around him.
Portraits and other works become evidence for understanding the painter’s ambitions and experience.
Schama situates Rembrandt within the cultural world of the seventeenth-century Netherlands.
The biography asks what looking carefully at the art can reveal about its maker.
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