Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History.(Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam)(Book Review)

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AMY GOLAHNY

Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2003. 283 pp.; 8 color ills.; 64 b/w. $50.00

MICHAEL ZELL

Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 264 pp.; 114 b/w ills. $55.00

The books under review here provide insight into Rembrandt's engagement with his art by examining his intellectual life and, more specifically, his process of study ...

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