Lyt nĂĄr som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs sĂĄ meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig nĂĄr som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries.

Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing tour of Jewish Amsterdam—which begins in 1653 as workers are repairing Rembrandt's Portuguese-Jewish neighbor's house and completely disrupting the artist's life and livelihood—Steven Nadler tells us the stories of the artist's portraits of Jewish sitters, of his mundane and often contentious dealings with his neighbors in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, and of the tolerant setting that city provided for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews fleeing persecution in other parts of Europe. As Nadler shows, Rembrandt was only one of a number of prominent seventeenth-century Dutch painters and draftsmen who found inspiration in Jewish subjects. Looking at other artists, such as the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael and Emmanuel de Witte, a celebrated painter of architectural interiors, Nadler is able to build a deep and complex account of the remarkable relationship between Dutch and Jewish cultures in the period, evidenced in the dispassionate, even ordinary ways in which Jews and their religion are represented—far from the demonization and grotesque caricatures, the iconography of the outsider, so often found in depictions of Jews during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Through his close look at paintings, etchings, and drawings; in his discussion of intellectual and social life during the Dutch Golden Age; and even through his own travels in pursuit of his subject, Nadler takes the reader through Jewish Amsterdam then and now—a trip that, under ever-threatening Dutch skies, is full of colorful and eccentric personalities, fiery debates, and magnificent art.

© 2024 The University of Chicago Press (E-bog): 9780226360614

Udgivelsesdato

E-bog: 31. maj 2024

Andre kan ogsĂĄ lide...

  1. The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico Christopher S. Wood
  2. You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences Daniel Chirot
  3. The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion Marcel Gauchet
  4. The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks Richard Stoneman
  5. Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period Matt Goldish
  6. Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens Josiah Ober
  7. A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal Melissa Teixeira
  8. A Teachable Spirit: The Virtue of Learning from Strangers, Enemies, and Absolutely Anyone A. J. Swoboda
  9. The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are Alva Noë
  10. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China Stephen F. Teiser
  11. Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History Thomas J. Barfield
  12. Six Characters in Search of an Author: 'Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy'' Luigi Pirandello
  13. When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia Erin Lin
  14. Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE Christopher Ehret
  15. When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice Jason Brennan
  16. Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism Peter Berkowitz
  17. Darkest England Idries Shah
  18. The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History Michael Kazin
  19. Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism Gregory Claeys
  20. Facing Evil John Kekes
  21. The Morality of Pluralism John Kekes
  22. Bridges Victoria Charles
  23. The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists Gary Marcus

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige nĂĄr som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /mĂĄned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/mĂĄned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /mĂĄned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/mĂĄned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /mĂĄned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /mĂĄned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/mĂĄned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /mĂĄned
Start tilbuddet