Rembrandt
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers new to Western art who want an introduction to Rembrandt's life and artistic qualities
- English learners seeking accessible art writing for reading practice
- Art lovers willing to look at images alongside the text
- Organizers of reading groups looking for public-domain art-history texts
Not a good fit for
- Specialist researchers who need the latest scholarship and attribution studies
- Readers who expect high-resolution plates and the experience of a printed picture album
- Readers impatient with the standpoint and style of early art writing
- Those who only want a quick chronology of the painter's life without extended commentary
Reading tips
- Before reading, prepare images of Rembrandt's major works and pause to compare them with the relevant passages.
- Read the chapters in order and, at the end of each, summarize the artistic qualities the author emphasizes in two or three sentences.
- Note evaluative judgments and compare them with modern art-historical views, marking possible period limitations.
- You might begin with passages on famous works such as The Night Watch, then read the whole book once your interest is engaged.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Estelle M. Hurll (1863–1924) was an American writer on art, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She graduated from Wellesley College, where she later taught ethics. She then turned to writing about art for a general readership, producing a series of accessible guides to appreciation that discussed artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Correggio, Reynolds and Jean-François Millet, and also treated Greek sculpture, child life in art and the Madonna in art. Thirteen of her works are held in this collection, mostly classed under inspirational and personal growth. Her plain, approachable style encourages readers to understand both the form and the feeling of works of art, and her books played a modest part in early twentieth-century American art education.
