REMBRANDT

Three of the best books on the Dutch masters to have appeared in recent years

Date: 2007-11-30

'Rembrandt was, above all, a painter and etcher of scenes from the Old and New Testaments and it is in the description of his interpretations of these texts that Dr Tumpel is unrivalled among modern writers on the artist. The analysis, for example, of Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, the great painting of 1656 - the year of Rembrandt's bankruptcy, incidentally - at Kassel, is truly instructive and enlightening, and it is just one of many such rich and cogent analyses. Dr Tumpel's book is ... the product of long and mature reflection on the art of Rembrandt and, in particular, on his religious art.'

Christopher Brown, Director, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, The Art Newspaper, No. 186, December 2007

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‘Unmissable . . . Christian and Astrid Tumpel are acknowledged to be among the greatest living authorities on the 17th-century Dutch master, and in this book . . . they have distilled their expertise to explain the stories behind his major paintings and t relate them to Rembrandt’s life and to contemporary Amsterdam.’
Christopher Hudson, The Daily Mail, 15 December 2006