Author: SARAH EMILY MIANO
Title: Van Rijn
Description: Picador, 2007. Pp: 475. 'An enticing journey into the past, well observed and researched, and providing a tour of the alternative artistic life of the seventeenth century' Sunday TimesAmsterdam, 1667. Pieter Blaeu, a young publisher, meets the aged, destitute painter Rembrandt van Rijn, and is powerfully drawn into his orbit. Together with a poet named Clara he begins a pursuit of the elusive man's confidence, in a quest that is at once a love affair and a layered, layered, luminous portrait of a most mysterious artist and his world.'It is no mean feat for a young writer to pitch herself against the great master and attempt to achieve in prose the explorations of identity that Rembrandt achieved in paint.All we now have of [Rembrandt] are the paintings themselves and Van Rijn returns us to these with a renewed sense of wonder' Times Literary Supplement'Miano has a keen eye for physical detail.Van Rijn is, as befits its subject, a highly visual novel' Financial Times'A cause for celebration.The marriage of art, history and fiction has rarely been so alive' The Times'An admirably physical writer.This novel impresses' Independent on Sunday'Vivid and moving.Rembrandt emerges as an object of pity and of enduring love' Art Quarterly. ISBN: 9780330448673. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780330448673
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Title: Van Rijn
Description: Picador, 2007. Pp: 475. 'An enticing journey into the past, well observed and researched, and providing a tour of the alternative artistic life of the seventeenth century' Sunday TimesAmsterdam, 1667. Pieter Blaeu, a young publisher, meets the aged, destitute painter Rembrandt van Rijn, and is powerfully drawn into his orbit. Together with a poet named Clara he begins a pursuit of the elusive man's confidence, in a quest that is at once a love affair and a layered, layered, luminous portrait of a most mysterious artist and his world.'It is no mean feat for a young writer to pitch herself against the great master and attempt to achieve in prose the explorations of identity that Rembrandt achieved in paint.All we now have of [Rembrandt] are the paintings themselves and Van Rijn returns us to these with a renewed sense of wonder' Times Literary Supplement'Miano has a keen eye for physical detail.Van Rijn is, as befits its subject, a highly visual novel' Financial Times'A cause for celebration.The marriage of art, history and fiction has rarely been so alive' The Times'An admirably physical writer.This novel impresses' Independent on Sunday'Vivid and moving.Rembrandt emerges as an object of pity and of enduring love' Art Quarterly. ISBN: 9780330448673. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780330448673
Price: EUR 5.00 = appr. US$ 5.43 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 933224
- Book number: 933224
See more books from our catalog: Literatuur