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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, myths and rituals of fertility, images of decay in early modern allegory and melancholy, the ruins craze of the eighteenth century, and the creation of “new ruins” for gardens and other structures. Stewart focuses particularly on Renaissance humanism and Romanticism, periods of intense interest in ruins that also offer new frames for their perception. The Ruins Lesson looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing art. Ruins, Stewart concludes, arise at the boundaries of cultures and civilizations. Their very appearance depends upon an act of translation between the past and the present, between those who have vanished and those who emerge. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.

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This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists whose work involves Rembrandt van Rijn and associated artists such as Gerrit Dou, Jan Lievens, and Ferdinand Bol. The range of subjects considered is wide: from the presentation of convincing evidence that Rembrandt and his contemporary Frans Hals rubbed elbows in the Amsterdam workshop of Hendrick Uylenburgh to critical reassessments of the role of printmaking in Rembrandt's studio, his competition with Lievens as a landscape painter, his reputation as a collector, and much more. Developed from a series of international conferences devoted to charting new directions in Rembrandt research, these essays illuminate the current state of Rembrandt studies and suggest avenues for future inquiry.

Aesthetics of art --- art criticism --- gouden eeuw (Holland) --- Rembrandt --- Netherlands --- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, --- Rāmbirānt, --- Rembrandt Garmens van Reĭn, --- Rembrandt van Rijn --- Rembrandt van Reĭn, --- Lun-po-lang, --- Rembrandt, --- Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon, --- Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van, --- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, --- Reimbrandt, --- Rembrandt van Rijn, --- רמברנדט --- רמברנדט הרמנסזון ואן־ריין, --- رامبرانت --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn --- Rembrandt Garmens van Reĭn --- Rembrandt van Reĭ --- Lun-po-lan --- Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon --- Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van --- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rin, --- Reimbrand --- ART / European. --- Rembrandt, Gerrit Dou, Jan Lievens, Jan van Vliet, Ferdinand Bol, painting, printmaking, technical art history. --- Arts --- Hollandse school --- Künstlerschule. --- Umkreis.