![]() Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt and the Female Nude, examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the background of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands and Italy. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. ![]() But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical-even ugly and unpleasant. Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes- Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba-as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. ![]()
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