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Title: Rembrandt: The Christmas Story : by Rembrandt Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn, Rembrandt, Rembrandt H. Van Rijn ISBN: 0-7852-7464-2 Publisher: J Countryman Books Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Gorgeous Gift Book
Comment: This beautiful, 72 page book is a great gift for art lovers and Christians. Its introduction explains Rembrandt's possible inspiration and some details for each work. The text of the KJV Bible gives the book a devotional quality. Both text and art make for good meditation during a busy Christmas season. My favorite is the drawing on the book's cover, shown in full on page 27. It's a tender portrait of Mary and Jesus, possibly modeled by Rembrandt's wife and first child. I think knowing that the child died after two months makes this drawing all the more poignant to me. Jesus, God Almighty incarnate as a human, was just as frail as Rembrandt's first born.

Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful marriage of art and scripture
Comment: This volume is a wonderful marriage of art by Rembrant and text from the Gospel infancy narratives. Thus the book revolves around well known episodes: the annunciation, Mary's visit to Elizabeth, the birth of John the Baptist, the birth of Jesus, the angel appearing to the shepherds ... etc. Some of the texts have multiple paintings and etchings associated with them; this has the effect of allowing the art more than the word to tell the story. This is an excellent book for anyone interested in religious or biblical art.

Rating: 3
Summary: Why so small?
Comment: The pictures of this book are very good and the text fits well, however, having copies of the other two books in this series, "The Life Of Christ" and "The Old Testament", I was a bit dissapointed with the size of this book. The publishers seem to be attempting one of those "gift" books and in doing this they do a great disservice to the artist.