tailieunhanh - Great Masters in Painting: Rembrandt van Rijn

Down to the middle of the present century the story of Rembrandt, as generally accepted, was nothing but a mass of more or less ill-natured fiction. His drunkenness, his luxury, his immorality, his avarice, were heaped together into a somewhat inconsistent midden-heap of infamy. It was not indeed until his true rank among painters began to be properly appreciated that it occurred to anyone to ask whether this harsh judgment did not need revision; nay, more, to inquire upon what evidence it had been first delivered, and the investigation had not long been set on foot before the question took the form--"Is there any evidence,. | Great Masters in Painting Rembrandt van by Malcolm Bell 1 Great Masters in Painting Rembrandt van by Malcolm Bell The Project Gutenberg EBook of Great Masters in Painting Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Great Masters in Painting Rembrandt van Rijn Author Malcolm Bell Release Date June 2 2010 EBook 32661 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Produced by Thierry Alberto Júlio Reis Robert Cicconetti and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s notes Great Masters in Painting Rembrandt van by Malcolm Bell 2 Text in italics has been marked with an underscore. Text in bold has been marked with . Text in small caps has been marked with . The oe-ligature has been rendered oe and OE as in Ph oe nix . The Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture Edited by G. C. Williamson REMBRANDT VAN RIJN THE GREAT MASTERS IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. The following Volumes have been issued price 5s. net each. BERNARDINO LUINI. By George C. Williamson . Editor of the Series. VELASQUEZ. By R. A. M. Stevenson . ANDREA DEL SARTO. By H. Guinness . LUCA SIGNORELLI. By Maud Cruttwell . RAPHAEL. By H. Strachey . CARLO CRIVELLI. By G. McNeil Rushforth . Lecturer in Classics Oriel College Oxford. CORREGGIO. By Selwyn Brinton . Author of The Renaissance in Italian Art. DONATELLO. By Hope Rea Author of Tuscan Artists. PERUGINO. By G. C. Williamson . SODOMA. By the Contessa Lorenzo Priuli-Bon . LUCA DELLA ROBBIA. By the Marchesa Burlamacchi . GIORGIONE. By Herbert Cook . . MEMLINO. By W. H. James Weale late Keeper of the National Art Library. PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA. By W. G. Waters . PINTORICCHIO. By Evelyn March Phillipps