Dimensions
205 x 262 x 49mm
More than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt remains the most deeply loved of all the great masters of painting, his face so familiar to us from the self-portraits painted at every stage in his life, yet still so mysterious - the facts of his life are hard to come by. Rembrandt's Eyes shows that the true biography of Rembrandt is in his pictures. Through a succession of brilliant descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into this narrative, Simon Schama allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly, and to think about it freshly. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, and based on his profound knowledge of Holland and the Dutch in the 17th century, Schama conjures the world in which Rembrandt moved - its sounds, smells and tastes as well as its politics. Despite the paucity of conventional historical evidence, it is as intelligently true a biography of Rembrandt as we are ever likely to have, and the most dazzling achievement of this most poetic, most unpredictable and most engaging of contemporary historians.
