LIVES OF REMBRANDT

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the seventeenth century - and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emotional truth, and reckless disregard of artistic convention astonished, delighted and often dismayed his contemporaries, and the full gamut of these reactions is revealed in the three early bio-graphies published here for the first time in their entirety in English.