Rembrandt et ses contemporains Pièces historiques de la collection Leiden

The focus is on artists from Leiden, with the spearhead of work by Rembrandt whose works from the first ten years of his career are included. The remaining work comes from Leiden and Amsterdam, where very recognizable, opposing schools of painting existed in the course of the seventeenth century. Where Leiden could rely on the fine painters who were already praised in their day for their smooth painting technique and lifelike imitation of materials, in Amsterdam the tone was set by painters who followed Rembrandt in a suggestive loose painting style.

Le livre qui accompagne l’exposition à l’Hermitage d’Amsterdam est unique en raison de l’attention particulière qu’il porte à la « peinture d’histoire », le genre le plus prestigieux et le plus puissant de la peinture du XVIIe siècle. Les maîtres hollandais peuvent être vus ici au sommet de leurs capacités.