Lig In The Donker By Karel Schoeman

Lig In The Donker By Karel Schoeman

Softcover

ISBN 0798124342 

Publisher: Human & Rousseau 1988

Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Shelf rubbed. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.

Just as Beethoven's name became synonymous with music and Shakespeare's name with literature, so Rembrandt van Rijn's name became synonymous with painting. No painter in the history of Western civilization has captured the imagination of the public like Rembrandt. No painter has yet managed to command as much admiration from both experts and lay people as Rembrandt. No painter has given such an impressive image of man with such a variety of techniques and subjects as Rembrandt.

Yet Rembrandt died in 1669 as a forgotten man, bankrupt and disillusioned. For he did not pursue popularity and wealth: all that mattered to him was his art, and for the sake of its refinement he sacrificed everything.