Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn in one of the most researched (visual) artists in history.Golahny, Amy (2001), 'The Use and Misuse of Rembrandt: An Overview of Popular Reception,'. Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies 25(2): 305–322Scallen, Catherine: Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004)Franits, Wayne (ed.): The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2016) His life and work have long attracted the attention of multidisciplinary scholarship. The field of Rembrandt studies (i.e. study of Rembrandt's life and work)—as an academic field in its own right with many noted Rembrandt scholars—has been very dynamic and well published since the Dutch Golden Age.
The following is a list of notable Rembrandt experts (e.g. connoisseurs and scholars):
Filippo Baldinucci Adam Bartsch Kurt BauchBauch, Kurt: Die Kunst des Jungen Rembrandt. (Heidelberg: Winter, 1933) [in German] Bauch, Kurt: Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit. Studien zur geschichtlichen Bedeutung seines Frühstils. (Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1960) [in German] Bauch, Kurt: Rembrandt Gemälde. (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1966) [in German] Bauch, Kurt (1967), 'Ikonographischer Stil: Zur Frage der Inhalte in Rembrandt's Kunst,'. In: Studien zur Kunstgeschichte. (Berlin: De Grayter, 1967), pp. 123–151. [in German] Otto BeneschBenesch, Otto: Rembrandt: Werk und Forschung. (Vienna, 1935) [in German] Benesch, Otto: The Drawings of Rembrandt: First Complete Edition in Six Volumes. (London: Phaidon, 1954–57) Benesch, Otto: Rembrandt as a Draughtsman: An Essay with 115 Illustrations. (London: Phaidon Press, 1960) Benesch, Otto: The Drawings of Rembrandt. A Critical and Chronological Catalogue [2nd ed., 6 vols.]. (London: Phaidon, 1973) Benesch, Otto (1956), 'Worldly and Religious Portraits in Rembrandt's Late Art,'. The Art Quarterly 19: 335–355 Benesch, Otto (1970), 'Rembrandt's Artistic Heritage: From Goya to Cézanne,'. (Collected Writings, vol. 1, New York, 1970, pp. 57–82) Benesch, Otto (1973), 'Rembrandts Bild bei Picasso,'; in Benesch's Collected Writings, vol. 4 (London, 1973) [in German] Harry Berger, Jr.Berger, Jr., Harry: Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000) Berger, Jr., Harry: Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief: Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and Other Dutch Group Portraits. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007) Berger, Jr., Harry: The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015) Holm BeversBevers, Holm: Rembrandt: Die Zeichnungen im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett [Kritischer Katalog]. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006) [in German] Bevers, Holm; Kettner, Jasper; Metze, Gudula (eds.): Rembrandt. Ein Virtuose der Druckgraphik. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2006) [in German] Bevers, Holm: Rembrandt: Drawings from the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007) Bevers, Holm; Rumberg, Per: Rembrandt's First Masterpiece [exh. cat.]. (New York: Morgan Library and Museum, 2016) Bevers, Holm; et al.: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference. (Los Angeles, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009) Bevers, Holm; Kelch, Jan; Lindemann, Bernd Wolfgang; Seifert, Christian Tico (eds.): Rembrandt – Wissenschaft auf der Suche. Beiträge des Internationalen Symposiums Berlin, 4.-5. November 2006 [Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen. Neue Folge. Vol. 51, Beiheft]. (Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2009) [in German] Jan BiałostockiBiałostocki, Jan; Michałkowa, Janina (eds.): Rembrandt w oczach współczesnych. (Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1957) [in Polish] Białostocki, Jan (1957), 'Bellori's Caravaggio and Sandrart's Rembrandt,'. Burlington Magazine 99(653): 274–275 Białostocki, Jan (1957), 'Ikonographische Forschungen zu Rembrandts Werk,'. Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 8: 195–210. [in German] Białostocki, Jan (1966), 'Rembrand's "Terminus": To Wolfgang Stechow,'. Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 28: 49–60 Białostocki, Jan (1968), 'Rembrandt's 'Eques Polonus','. Oud Holland: Journal for Art of the Low Countries 84(2/3): 163–176. Białostocki, Jan (1972), 'Rembrandt and Posterity,'. Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 23 (1972): 131–157. Białostocki, Jan (1973), 'Der Sünder als tragischer Held bei Rembrandt. Bemerkungen zu neueren ikonographischen Studien über Rembrandt,'; in: von Simson, Otto Georg; Kelch, Jan (hrsg.): Neue Beiträge zur Rembrandt-Forschung. (Berlin: Mann, 1973), pp. 137–154. [in German] Białostocki, Jan (1984), 'A New Look at Rembrandt Iconography,'. Artibus et Historiae 5(10): 9–19 Michael BockemühlBockemühl, Michael: Rembrandt: Zum Wandel des Bildes und seiner Anschauung im Spätwerk. (Mittenwald: Mäander Verlag, 1981) [in German] Bockemühl, Michael: Rembrandt, 1606–1669. Das Rätsel der Erscheinung. (Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1991) [in German] Wilhelm von BodeVon Bode, Wilhelm; de Groot, Cornelis Hofstede: The Complete Work of Rembrandt: History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, with a Study of His Life and Art. [8 vols.]. (Paris: Charles Sedelmeyer, 1897–1906) Von Bode, Wilhelm: Rembrandt und seine Zeitgenossen: Charakterbilder der grossen Meister der holländischen und vlämischen Malerschule im siebzehnten Jahrhundert. (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann Verlag, 1907) [in German] Von Bode, Wilhelm: Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei [Studies in the history of Dutch painting]. (Brunswick: Friedrich Viewege, 1883) [in German] Pascal BonafouxBonafoux, Pascal: Rembrandt: Self-Portrait. (New York: Rizzoli, 1985) Bonafoux, Pascal: Rembrandt, le clair, l'obscur, collection "Découvertes Gallimard" (nº 76). (Paris: Gallimard, 1990) [in French] Abraham BrediusBredius, Abraham: The Paintings of Rembrandt. (London: Phaidon, 1937) Bredius, Abraham: Rembrandt: The Complete Edition of the Paintings, 3rd ed. [Revised by Horst Gerson]. (London: Phaidon Press, 1969) B.P.J. BroosBroos, B.P.J.: Oude tekeningen in het bezit van de Gemeentemusea van Amsterdam waaronder de collectie Fodor [Deel 3]: Rembrandt en tekenaars uit zijn omgeving. (Amsterdam: Amsterdams Historisch Museum, 1981) [in Dutch] Broos, B.P.J.: Rembrandt en zijn voorbeelden [Rembrandt and his sources]. (Amsterdam: Museum Het Rembrandthuis, 1985) [in Dutch] Broos, B.P.J.: Rembrandt studies. (Ph.D. diss., Universiteit Utrecht, 1977) [in Dutch] Broos, B.P.J.: Index to the Formal Sources of Rembrandt's Art. (Maarssen, Netherlands: Gary Schwartz, 1977) Broos, B.P.J.: Het Rembrandt boek. (Zwolle: Waanders, 2006) [in Dutch] Broos, B.P.J.: Saskia, de vrouw van Rembrandt. (Zwolle: Wbooks, 2012) [in Dutch] Broos, B.P.J. (1971), 'The 'O' of Rembrandt,'. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 4(3): 150–84 Broos, B.P.J. (1974), 'Rembrandt's Portrait of a Pole and His Horse,'. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 7(4): 192–218 Broos, B.P.J. (1976), 'Rembrandt and Lastman's "Coriolanus": The History Piece in 17th-Century Theory and Practice,'. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 8(4): 199–228 Broos, B.P.J. (1999), 'Rembrandt and His Picturesque Universe: The Artist's Collection as a Source of Inspiration,'. In: Rembrandt's Treasures, ed. Bob van den Boogert [exh. cat.]. (Amsterdam: Rembrandt House Museum; Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1999), pp. 91–13 Broos, B.P.J. (2009), 'Rembrandt & Saskia: Recent Research,'. Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 51. Bd., Beiheft. Rembrandt — Wissenschaft auf der Suche. Beiträge des Internationalen Symposiums Berlin — 4. und 5. November 2006 (2009): 9–15. Broos, B.P.J. (2013), 'The Young Samuel van Hoogstraten Corrected by Rembrandt,'. In: The Universal Artof Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627–1678): Painter, Writer and Courtier, edited by Thijs Weststeijn. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013), pp. 77–95 Josua BruynBruyn, J.; et al.: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings [Volume I, Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project]. (The Hague/Dordrecht/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982) Bruyn, J.; et al.: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings [Volume II, Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project]. (Dordrecht/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982) Bruyn, J. (1970), 'Rembrandt and the Italian Baroque,'. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 4: 28–48 Bruyn, J. (1990), 'An Unknown Assistant in Rembrandt's Workshop in the Early 1660s,'. The Burlington Magazine 132(1051): 714–718 Margaret D. CarrollCarroll, Margaret D.: Rembrandt's Nightwatch and the Iconological Traditions of Militia Company Portraiture in Amsterdam. (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1976) Carroll, Margaret D.: Painting and Politics in Northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and Their Contemporaries. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2008) Carroll, Margaret D. (1981), 'Rembrandt as Meditational Printmaker,'. The Art Bulletin 63(4): 585–610 Carroll, Margaret D. (1984), 'Rembrandt's "Aristotle": Exemplary Beholder,'. Artibus et Historiae 5(10): 35–56 Carroll, Margaret D. (2017), 'The Blade and the Brush: Rembrandt's Slaughtered Ox and Anatomy of Doctor Deyman'. Oxford Art Journal 40(3): 347–369. H. Perry ChapmanChapman, H. Perry: The Image of the Artist: Roles and Guises in Rembrandt's Self-Portraits. (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1983) Chapman, H. Perry: Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study Seventeenth-Century Identity. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990) Chapman, H. Perry (2005), 'The Imagined Studios of Rembrandt and Vermeer,'. In: Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism, edited by Michael Cole and Mary Pardo. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 108–46 Chapman, H. Perry (2010), 'Reclaiming the Inner Rembrandt: Passion and Rembrandt's Earliest Self-Portraits,'. In: The Passions in the Art of the Early Modern Netherlands, edited by Herman Roodenburg and Stephanie Dickey. Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 60 (2010): 188–215 Chapman, H. Perry (2014), 'Rembrandt's Laughter and the Love of Art,'. In: Midwestern Arcadia: Essays in honor of Alison Kettering. Northfield, 2014 Chapman, H. Perry (2014), 'Rembrandt and Caravaggio: Emulation without Imitation,'. In: Caravaggio: Reflections and Refractions, edited by Lorenzo Pericolo and David M. Stone. (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 273–300 Chapman, H. Perry (2017), 'Rubens, Rembrandt, and the Spousal Model/Muse,'. In: Melion, Walter; Woodall, Joanna; Zell, Michael: Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500–1700. (Leiden: Brill, 2017) Kenneth Clark Paul CrenshawCrenshaw, Paul: Rembrandt's Bankruptcy. (Ph.D. thesis, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2000) Crenshaw, Paul: Rembrandt's Bankruptcy: The Artist, his Patrons, and the Art market in Seventeenth-Century Netherlands. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Crenshaw, Paul; Herndon-Consagra, Francesca: Rembrandt: Master Etchings from St. Louis Collections [exh. cat.]. (St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Art Museum, 2006) Crenshaw, Paul (2001), 'Rembrandt's Disputes with His Patrons,'. Dutch Crossing: A Journal of Low Countries Studies 25(2): 162–99. Crenshaw, Paul (2013), 'The Catalyst for Rembrandt's Satire on Art criticism,'. JHNA: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 5(2). Crenshaw, Paul (2017), 'Rembrandt and Hals Visit the Arundel Collection,'. JHNA: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 9(1). Marieke de WinkelDe Winkel, Marieke; Manuth, Volker: Rembrandt's Minerva in Her Study of 1635: The Splendor and Wisdom of a Goddess. (New York: Otto Naumann, 2002) De Winkel, Marieke: Fashion and Fancy: Dress and Meaning in Rembrandt's Paintings. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006) De Winkel, Marieke; Manuth, Volker: Rembrandt: The Self-Portraits. (London: Taschen, 2019)