Rembrandt and the Female Nude (Sluijter Eric Jan
Rembrandt and the Female Nude (Sluijter Eric Jan Rembrandt's extraordinary paintings of female nudes - Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and Her Nymphs, Dana , Bathsheba - as well as his etchings of nude…
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Rembrandt and the Female Nude (Sluijter Eric Jan
Rembrandt's extraordinary paintings of female nudes - Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and Her Nymphs, Dana , Bathsheba - as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians, but they have also elicited vehement criticism. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, keeping close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. They were considered against-the-grain, anti-classical, even ugly and unpleasant.
To answer this question the author examines Rembrandt's paintings and etchings against the foil of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands as well as Italy. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? Exploring Rembrandt's intense dialogue with the works of predecessors and peers, the author