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5) Rembrandt
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31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.
9) Rembrandt
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1 videodisc (approximately 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Rembrandt van Rijn tells you in his own words the story of his own life and creative career in this lighthearted and informative look at one of the world's most famous artists.
10) Rembrandt
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15 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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x, 271 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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English
Description
Set in seventeenth-century Holland, this historical novel imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings. Commissioned by a prominent Amsterdam medical guild, The Anatomical Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was one of Rembrandt's first paintings to gain public notice; the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection, and, as they prepare for that evening's big event, follows several characters, including Rembrandt himself....
16) Nightwatching
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1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 1642, Rembrandt reluctantly agrees to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later come to be known as the Nightwatch and stumbles upon a treacherous murder plot.
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English
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"The Foulest Thing is an adult mystery novel featuring a smart young archivist. Jess Kendall is desperate to make a good impression on her new boss at the Canadian Archives and thinks she's hit the jackpot when she finds some mysterious letters from the First World War. Setting out to unravel their story, Jess stumbles across a body in the archives' vaults. It's only when Jess makes the connection between the letters, the murder and a priceless Rembrandt,...
18) Midnight blue
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327, 4 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"Amsterdam 1654: against the backdrop of Holland's Golden Age, a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life."--Back cover.
Amsterdam 1654. Following the sudden death of her husband, Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Madam Van Nulandt takes expensive painting lessons from a local master, Rembrandt van Rigin. When Catrin takes up a brush to finish some...
19) Rembrandt
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Series
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238 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic biography of the Dutch master. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is a towering figure in European art history: a virtuoso painter, draftsman, and etcher whose enduring influence can be seen in the work of artists from J. M. W. Turner to Francis Bacon and beyond. A prolific self-portraitist, Rembrandt is a deeply familiar figureand yet little is known of his life and character. In this first graphic biography of the Dutch master, Typex pieces...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + viewer's guide (20 pages ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak unravels the secrets behind eight masterpieces of European painting, searching out art experts, literary and artistic allusions, and historical records to expose long-held secrets within the gilded frames.
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