Rembrandt's Eyes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141979533)

This dazzling, unconventional biography shows us why, more than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on our imagination. Deeply familiar to us through his enigmatic self-portraits, few facts are known about the Leiden miller's son who tasted brief fame before facing financial ruin (he was even forced to sell his beloved wife Saskia's grave). The true biography of Rembrandt, as Simon Schama demonstrates, is to be discovered in his pictures. Interweaving of seventeenth-century Holland, Schama allows us to see Rembrandt in a completely fresh and original way.

Author: Simon Schama
ISBN-10: 0141979534
ISBN-13: 9780141979533
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2015
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback
Weight: 4.30lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.50w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/22/2015 pg. 32

About the Author
SIMON SCHAMA has taught history at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard universities, was art critic for the New Yorker, and is currently a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. He is a prizewinning author whose books include The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, The Story of the Jews, and The Power of Art, which has been made into an Emmy-winning television series.