Session 8 · July 27, 2025
Dutch Landscape, Group Portraiture, Rembrandt
Galleries
615 (“The Patriotic Landscape”), 616 (“Painters, Critics, and Rivals in the Age of Rembrandt”), 618 (“Putting on a Show”)
Readings
All readings are optional.
- Riegl, Alois “The Dutch Group Portraiture”, October 74 (1995).
- Houbraken, Arnold. “Life of Rembrandt.” Lives of Rembrandt. Pallas Athene, 2007 [De Groote Schouburg der Nederlandtsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen, 1718].
- Alpers, Svetlana. Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Excerpt, “The Master’s Touch,” pp. 14-33
- Wölfflin, Heinrich. Renaissance and Baroque. Collins, 1964 [1888] Excerpt, “The Painterly Style”, pp. 27-37