Divine Encounter: Rembrandt's Abraham and the Angels - Hardcover

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1911282034 ISBN 13: 9781911282037

Publisher: D Giles Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

This volume is a rare chance to see his exquisite painting by Rembrandt van Rijn alongside a selection of the artist s treatments of other biblical episodes, and works by his contemporaries. Rembrandt took an unusual and personal approach to biblical subjects, exploring the nature of divine encounter and the complexities of its representation, making use of the viewer s knowledge of the subject whilst finding ways to bring the familiar to life. A book for art, biblical and philosohpy students Divine Encounter examines these works as a group and considers them in relation to theological and artistic debates of the period.

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About the Author:

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein is the 201517 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at The Frick Collection, New York. She is a doctoral candidate at New York University s Institute of Fine Arts, where she is writing a dissertation on Rembrandt s treatments of themes from classical antiquity. From 2009 to 2014, she held the Institute s Kaplan-Fisch Fellowship in the Connoisseurship of European Paintings. At The Frick Collection, where she has worked since 2002 as a Curatorial and Research Assistant, she has contributed to such publications as Goya s Last Works (2006), The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya (2010), and Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections (2011). In 2015, she organized the exhibition Landscape Drawings in The Frick Collection."

About this edition

• Publisher: D Giles Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911282034
• ISBN 13: 9781911282037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 72