Rembrandt: The Painter Thinking

"Who would not have wanted to look over Rembrandt's shoulder while he painted? Among the countless books on Rembrandt, that by Ernst van de Wetering comes closest to conveying something of this experience." --Ernst Gombrich, author of The Story of Art

"No one attempting to write about Rembrandt in the future will be able to do so without taking this fine work into account." --Simon Schama, author of The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

"This is a very rich book, a deeply felt analysis of an artist whom the author knows better than almost any other living scholar." --Times Literary Supplement