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Description: | RU Signed with monogram RHL CRE REMBRANDT, Harmensz van Rijn; (Dutch; 1606-1669) Rembrandt did not idealise his nudes, nor submit to Renaissance ideas on proportion. Although we regard him as the greatest Dutch artist, his reputation suffered while thought was dominated by classical ideas. This etching is thought to have sparked the remarks in 1691 of the Dutch poet Andries Pels, who objected to Rembrandt's realistic treatment of a goddess, complaining that he had shown the model's 'Sagging breasts, ill-shaped hands, even the marks of stays of the corsets on the stomach, or the garters on the legs'. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | NAKED WOMAN : MOUND : NUDE : FIGURE STUDY : VENUS : NORTHERN REALISM : : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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