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Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion dollars in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. In Stealing Rembrandts, authors Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major art heists of the Dutch Master in the last century. Through thefts around the world--from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio--the authors track daring entries into and escapes from the world's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in seventeenth-century Holland, this historical novel imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings. Commissioned by a prominent Amsterdam medical guild, The Anatomical Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was one of Rembrandt's first paintings to gain public notice; the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection, and, as they prepare for that evening's big event, follows several characters, including Rembrandt himself....
10) Nightwatching
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the year 1642, Rembrandt reluctantly agrees to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later come to be known as the Nightwatch and stumbles upon a treacherous murder plot.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
This powerful meditation illuminates the parable of the prodigal son found in Luke's Gospel. Nouwen discovers anew the reality that God's love is unconditional and shares his own spiritual journey with us. After an exhausting lecture circuit, Nouwen says he felt "anxious, lonely, restless and very needy." When he chanced upon a reproduction of Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son, the masterpiece was so powerful that he felt embraced by God's love...
15) Rembrandt
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time. Through reproductions of his better-known paintings and humorous cartoon illustrations, the life and work of Rembrandt are presented so that young readers can understand his significance." --
