Rembrandt: His Life and Works in 500 Images: A Study of the Artist, His Life and Context, with 500 Images, and a Gallery Showing 300 of His Most Iconic Paintings Hardcover – Illustrated, 23 May 2012

Excellent book, superbly illustrated.

I haven't read this book myself, I bought it as a gift for someone who said she wanted to learn more about art and artists from that era. She has told me she loves this book and is thoroughly enjoying it, and it isn't too technical for someone with limited previous knowledge. It certainly has some wonderful illustrations.

Wonderfully illustrated and well written. Perfect.

I had already purchased the book on Degas and I was so delighted with it I bought this. It is crammed with beautiful images of Rembrandt's works each image is named and also which museum it is hanging in should you wish to see the real thing. I have already found two that are in a museum fifteen minutes from my house. This is a well bound hardback book and well worth the purchase price. If like me you are starting a collection of some of the great artists I would definetly recommend these. I intend to collect them all.

Lovely book

gave this book as a gift,had nothing but praise thereafter every home needs this .good price as well, kkep up the good work

Awesome just buy it and see the genius inside

At first impression, this is really a beautiful book. Nice format, quality paper, loaded with illustrations. But once you start to read, you get really frustrated.Each topic is treated on two pages, with a headline and a topic introduction. Then follows the text about the subject. But some subjects cant be treated in only two pages, so numerous times a topic is introduced, and then left hanging without the conclusion.Furthermore, the text mentions a lot of paintings, and describe the circumstances in which they were painted. But more often than not, the Pictures described are NOT included in the illustrations. The illustrations appear to be distributed more or less ar random.In addition, the book contains a lot of pictures of paintings NOT by Rembrandt. OK, it is interesting also to see pictures by some of his pupils, but not THAT many. On numerous pages more than half of the Pictures are by other painters. Why??The text part of the book is from page 6 to 97. The remaining part Page 101 to 251 is called The Gallery with hundreds of Pictures in cronological order. This is fine, but there is no sufficient index of the Pictures, the text part does not Refer to the Gallery part (if you want to chek if the Picture described is there), and a lot of the described Pictures are not even included in THAT part.Really a VERY frustrating experience :-(