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Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 edition (August 4, 2015)
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there's a well known and romantic delusion approximately Rembrandt and the Jewish humans. one in all history's maximum artists, we're usually advised, had a distinct affinity for Judaism. With such a lot of of Rembrandt's works dedicated to tales of the Hebrew Bible, and together with his obvious penchant for Jewish subject matters and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it really is no ask yourself that the parable has persevered for centuries.Rembrandt's Jews places this delusion to the attempt because it examines either the legend and the truth of Rembrandt's dating to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing travel of Jewish Amsterdam—which starts off in 1653 as employees are repairing Rembrandt's Portuguese-Jewish neighbor's residence and fully disrupting the artist's existence and livelihood—Steven Nadler tells us the tales of the artist's photographs of Jewish sitters, of his mundane and sometimes contentious dealings along with his friends within the Jewish area of Amsterdam, and of the tolerant environment that urban supplied for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews fleeing persecution in different components of Europe. As Nadler exhibits, Rembrandt was once just one of a couple of renowned seventeenth-century Dutch painters and draftsmen who stumbled on thought in Jewish matters. taking a look at different artists, similar to the panorama painter Jacob van Ruisdael and Emmanuel de Witte, a celebrated painter of architectural interiors, Nadler is ready to construct a deep and intricate account of the impressive courting among Dutch and Jewish cultures within the interval, evidenced within the dispassionate, even traditional ways that Jews and their faith are represented—far from the demonization and gruesome caricatures, the iconography of the outsider, so frequently present in depictions of Jews throughout the heart a while and the Renaissance.Through his shut examine work, etchings, and drawings; in his dialogue of highbrow and social existence through the Dutch Golden Age; or even via his personal travels in pursuit of his topic, Nadler takes the reader via Jewish Amsterdam then and now—a journey that, less than ever-threatening Dutch skies, is stuffed with colourful and kooky personalities, fiery debates, and sumptuous artwork.