its rediscovery in the eighteenth century

italicized technical terms are explained in an accessible and informative glossary at the back

and painters

and tools used in each of these processes

Her many publications about Greek and Roman women and ancient history include Goddesses

Lives of Rembrandt Spring Crafts its rediscovery in the eighteenthJoachim von Sandrart, Filippo Baldinucci, and Arnold Houbraken The prodigious talent of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (ca. 16061669), along with his disregard for many of the artistic conventions of his day, astonished, delighted, and dismayed his contemporaries. The full gamut of their reactions is revealed in these three biographies, which were first published in the decades following Rembrandts death and appear here in English for the first time in