Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam by Zell, Michæl - 2002-03-04

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 264 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket has mild edge and shelf wear. Boards have slight bowing to both covers. Textblock clean. Shelved ND-E. 1377910. FP New Rockville Stock.

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white illustrations throughout. This richly detailed study reconceptualizes a striking but enigmatic moment in Rembrandt's art from the 1650s--one of the artist's most prolific and creative periods. Michael Zell identifies a significant theological shift in Rembrandt's use of religious imagery and interprets this shift in light of the unique religious and social conditions of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Rembrandt's biblical art has generally been regarded as the embodiment of a Protestant aesthetic. By looking closely at the artist's relationship with his patron Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel and the ideas of a group of "philosemitic" Protestants with whom the rabbi was engaged in an apologetic dialogue, Zell deepens and complicates our understanding of Rembrandt's sacred art from… Read More

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