Schama On Rembrandt : Masterpieces Of The Late Years / filmed, produced and directed by Francis Hanly.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hanly, Francis, producer, director.

Schama, Simon, presenter.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

Painting, Dutch--17th century.

Painting, Dutch.

Genre:

Biographical films.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 minutes)

Other Title:

Schama On Rembrandt : Masterpieces Of The Great Years

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : British Broadcasting Corporation, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

For art historian Simon Schama, Rembrandt is the greatest artist of all time. In this beautiful film, Schama, one of the world's leading experts on Rembrandt, assesses the Dutch master's final works as he faced the challenges of old age. In his last years leading up to his death in 1669, he was to find a whole new artistic language to express the pleasures and pains of growing old. Far from diminishing as he aged, his creativity gathered new energy in the final years of his life. Rembrandt's twilight years were turbulent - plagued by illness, poverty and bereavement. But exquisite beauty was borne from this misery, and, despite at the time being dismissed as substandard, grotesque even, the artist's late works were full of passion, innovation and deep self-reflection. Filmed in the picturesque city of Amsterdam, the program is a sumptuous visual treat, as well as offering an intriguing insight into a particularly vivid period of the great artist's oeuvre.

Participant:

Presented by: Simon Schama.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 03, 2017).

OCLC:

971307790