Rembrandt -- Studies in His Varied Approaches to Italian Art.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Prologue: Setting the Stage -- 1 Who Did, or Did Not, Travel to Italy -- 2 Dutch Artists Who Painted Italy at Second Hand -- 3 Jacob van Swanenburg and Pieter Lastman in Italy -- 4 Advice about Travel -- 5 On the Road in Italy: Nicholas Stone Jr. -- 6 The Material Evidence: Collecting Italian Art in Holland -- 7 Van Mander's Account of Remarkable Italian Paintings in Dutch Collections -- 8 A Sampling of Amsterdam Collections: 1630-1660 -- 9 Rembrandt at the Art Market -- 10 A Contrast in Collecting: Joachim von Sandrart in Amsterdam and Bavaria -- Chapter 2 Attitudes: Critical, Admiring, and Curious toward Rembrandt -- 1 Rembrandt's Acquaintances Condemn His Disregard for Italian Values: Huygens, Sandrart and De Lairesse -- 2 Pels, De Decker, and De Geest: Polarizing Attitudes -- 3 Rembrandt's Singular Manner: Houbraken -- 4 Rembrandt's Naturalism in Stefano della Bella's Model Books -- 5 Rembrandt's Goal in Art -- Chapter 3 Rembrandt's Collection and How He Used It: the Canonical and the Unusual -- 1 Drawing from the Original: Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian -- 2 Reminiscences and Variations -- 3 Life Study Fused with Art -- 4 Sculpture as Substitute for Life Study -- Chapter 4 Pragmatic Solutions -- 1 Borrowed Plumes Easily Disguised -- 2 The Supper at Emmaus of c. 1629 -- 3 Rembrandt and the Madonna of the Rosary: Structuring the Stage -- 4 Judas Returning the 30 Pieces of Silver: Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci -- 5 Two People in One Frame -- 5.1 The Shipbuilder and his Wife, 1633: Griet Jans Interrupting Jan Rijcksen at Work -- 5.2 The Ruffo Aristotle and the Bust of Homer, 1653 -- 5.3 The Ruffo Homer, 1663 -- Chapter 5 Appropriating for Commentary: Rembrandt's Critique of Titian, Raphael, and Leonardo.

1 Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple: the 1626 Painting and the 1635 Etching -- 2 The Hundred Guilder Print: Exploiting Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo -- 2.1 Raphael's Il Morbetto -- 2.2 Raphael's School of Athens -- 2.3 Michelangelo's Prince -- 2.4 Leonardo's Last Supper -- Chapter 6 Appropriation and Deviation: Responding for Alternatives -- 1 Diana and Actaeon with Callisto and Nymphs: Referencing the Italians -- 2 The Flute Player and Flower Girl: an Alternative to Titian -- 3 The Female Nude -- 3.1 Danae, 1636+ -- 3.2 Bathsheba, 1654 -- 3.3 A Woman Bathing in a Stream (Callisto), 1654 -- Chapter 7 Rembrandt Perceived by the Italians: Castiglione, the Ruffo Collection, and La Maniera Gagliarda -- 1 Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Inspired Improvisations -- 2 Rembrandt's Ruffo Series -- 3 Abraham Brueghel's Intermediary Role in the Ruffo Commissions -- 4 Guercino: Business-like, Efficient, and Respectful -- 5 Preti: Grudging Accommodation -- 6 Salvator Rosa: Independent, Arrogant, and Uncooperative -- 7 Brandi: Eager to Please -- 8 La Maniera Gagliarda -- 9 Baciccio: the Last Word -- Bibliography -- Index.

A survey into Rembrandt's references to Italian art and contemporary attitudes toward the artist.

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