| ISBN |
9783791390574 (softcover : English museum edition, Kunstmuseum, Basel) |
| Title |
Rembrandt's Orient : West meets East in Dutch art of the seventeenth century / edited by Bodo Brinkmann, Gabriel Dette, Michael Philipp, Ortrud Westheider |
| Publisher |
Munich : Prestel, 2020 |
| Physical desc. |
328 pages ; illustrations ; 31 cm. |
| Note |
Catalogue of an exhibition held: 31 October 2020 to 14 February 2021, at the Kunstmuseum Basel; and 13 March to 27 June 2021, at the Museum Barberini, Potsdam. |
| CB illustrations: p. [281], fig. 96 (In 07A.16). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Essays. Distant inspiration : an introduction to the exhibition / Gary Schwartz -- The fascination of the East : trade and art in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century / Erik Spaans -- "The exquisiteness of the goods the Indian gives us" : non-European objects in seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes and interiors / Michael Philipp -- "Utterly artless" or "Exceedingly noble" : Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid art in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jan de Hond -- Convention and uniqueness : Rembrandt's response to the East / Gary Schwartz -- The fear of Barbary pirates : privateers and Christian slaves in the seventeenth century / Roelof van Gelder -- Knowledge from the East : collecting Oriental manuscripts in the Dutch Republic in the age of Rembrandt / Arnoud Vrolijk -- Catalog of exhibited works. Turbans and silk robes : bringing the Orient home -- Paths to prosperity : trade and war -- Understanding the world : collections and research -- The landscape of the Bible : early Rembrandt and his influences -- Light in the temple : Rembrandt in Amersterdam and his followers -- True to life? Or mere convention? -- Familiarizing the exotic : Rembrandt's adaptation of the Orient. |
| Person as subject |
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn -- 1606-1669 -- Exhibitions |
| Corporate name |
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel -- Exhibitions |
| Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany) -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A |
| Orientalism in art -- Exhibitions |
| Exoticism in art -- Exhibitions |
| Painting, Dutch -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions |
| Art, Dutch -- 17th century -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) |
Brinkmann, Bodo |
| Dette, Gabriel |
| Philipp, Michael |
| Westheider, Ortrud |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel |
| Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany) |
