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Rembrandt's Eyes

Simon Schama

Résumé

For Rembrandt, as for Shakespeare, all the world was indeed a stage, and he knew in exhaustive detail the tactics of its performance: the strutting and mincing, the wardrobe and face-paint, the full repertoire and gesture and gimace, the flutter of hands and the roll of the eyes, the belly-laugh and the half-stifled sob. He knew what it looked like to seduce, to intimidate, to wheedle and to console; to strike a pose or preach a sermon, to shake a fist or uncover a breast; and how to sin and how to atone. No artist had ever been so fascinated by the fashioning of personae, beginning with his own. No painter ever looked with such unsparing intelligence or such bottomless compassion at our entrances and our exits and the whole rowdy show in between.

Détails de l'édition

ISBN-13
9780713993844
ISBN-10
0713993847
EAN
9780713993844
Éditeur
Allen Lane (London)
Date de publication
1 janvier 1999
Langue
en
Pages
750
Dimensions
27 cm
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