List of works about Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) is one of the most famous,[1][2] controversial, and best expertly researched (visual) artists in history.[3][4]

Rembrandt statue and the sculptures of The Night Watch in 3D at the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam

Rembrandt statue in Leiden

Rembrandt and Saskia

His life and art have long attracted the attention of multidisciplinary scholarship such as art history, social history,[5] cultural history, history of ideas, education, humanities, aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, literary studies, anatomy, medicine, religious studies, theology, Jewish studies,[6] Oriental studies (Asian studies),[7] globalization studies,[8][9] and art market research. In Rembrandt scholar Stephanie Dickey's words:

[Rembrandt] earned international renown as a painter, printmaker, teacher, and art collector while never leaving the Dutch Republic. In his home city of Leiden and in Amsterdam, where he worked for nearly forty years, he mentored generations of other painters and produced a body of work that has never ceased to attract admiration, critique, and interpretation. (...) Rembrandt's art is a key component in any study of the Dutch Golden Age, and his membership in the canon of artistic genius is well established, but he is also a figure whose significance transcends specialist interest. Literary critics have pondered "Rembrandt" as a "cultural text"; novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers have romanticized his life, and in popular culture, his name has become synonymous with excellence for products and services, ranging from toothpaste to self-help advice."[4]

For a visual artist in general and an Old Master in particular, Rembrandt (i.e. his life, art, and circle) has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and nonfiction works. The field of Rembrandt studies (study of Rembrandt's life and work, including works by his pupils and followers)—as an academic field in its own right with many noted Rembrandt connoisseurs and scholars—has been one of the most dynamic research areas of Netherlandish art (or art of the pre-1830 Low Countries) history.[3][10] In the history of the reception and interpretation of Rembrandt's art, the great 'rediscovery' of the Dutch master in 19th-century France and Germany decisively helped in establishing his lasting fame in subsequent centuries.[11][12]

The following is a list of works about Rembrandt. A longer bibliography is at [13]