R. V. R. (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- First Published: 1930
- Time of Work: 1641–1669
- Setting: Amsterdam, Holland
- Principal Characters: Rembrandt van Rijn, Joannis van Loon, Saskia van Uijlenburgh, Titus van Rijn, Geertje Dircx, Hendrickje Stoeffels, Cornelia van Rijn
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Art or artists, Marriage, Seventeenth century, Netherlands or Dutch people, Biography, Illustrators
- Locales: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Form and Content
In R. v. R.: The Life and Times of Rembrandt van Rijn, Hendrik Willem Van Loon offers a fictionalized, but historically well-researched, account of the later years of Rembrandt by telling the story from the point of view of Joannis van Loon, the physician and friend to the great painter. The biography focuses on Rembrandt’s life from the sickness and death of his wife, Saskia van Uijlenburgh, in the early 1640’s to his own death in 1669. The account in eighty chapters (forty-one chapters in a revised 1939 edition) is prefaced by diarylike entries in...
[The entire page is 1346 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
