Rembrandt’s Reading: The Artist’s Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History by Amy Golahny (PDF)

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Though Rembrandt’s study of the Bible has long been recognized, his interest in secular literature has been relatively neglected. In this volume, Amy Golahny uses a 1656 inventory to reconstruct Rembrandt’s library, discovering anew how his reading of history contributed to his creative process. In the end, Golahny places Rembrandt in the learned vernacular culture of seventeenth-century Holland, painting a picture of a pragmatic reader whose attention to historical texts strengthened his rivalry with Rubens for visual drama and narrative erudition.

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⭐I am so pleased to write a review for this book as it fulfills the question many have of what is behind an artist’s work, be it art, music, or literature. In researching for my forthcoming book “Lady with an Ostrich Feather Fan,” which is centered about the “life” of two Rembrandt portraits, I visited with Ernst van de Wetering, head of The Rembrandt Research Project in Amsterdam. I asked this expert, “What did Rembrandt think?” and he answered “We have no clue. We only know what he represented, and that is one thing to you and another thing to someone else.” But, still the artist’s defining thoughts, public or private, so affect his or her work. Discovering “Rembrandt’s Reading” is a great find. That Amy Golahny, a real intellectual investigator, discovered what Rembrandt read, is a great help to us writer’s who want to see as best possible below the arguably obvious, the “presentation.” As a writer of historical fiction, I want to absolutely know what is known, and absolutely know what is not known. Golahny’s book carefully examines the books listed in the 1656 inventory on the event of Rembrandt’s bankruptcy. She relates the content of these books to his works in a revealing way and moves the unknown in Rembrandt’s thought at least into the realm of probability. We will never know what that great man thought, but we have a careful research into what most likely influenced him and his work. What a great help this is. Highly recommended to any student of art.Fred Andresen, author of “Walking on Ice, An American Businessman in Russia.”

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