The expression of inner life
Continuity of life and the movement of expression
Being and becoming in a portrait
The series of portraits and drawings
Reserve and openness of the portrait figure
The circle in the depiction of a person
The animation of the portrait
Subjective realism and the self-portrait
Artistic procreation
Life's past in the painting
The representation of movement
The unity of the composition
Clarity and detailing
Life and form
Individualization and the general
Type and representation
Conceptions of life
Observations on the individuality of form and on pantheism
Death
Character
Beauty and perfection
The individuality of the Renaissance and of Rembrandt
Types of generality
The art of old age
The aspatial gaze
Mood
Human fate and the Heraclitean cosmos
Religious art
Objective and subjective religion in art
Piety
Concrete existence and religious life
The type of unity in the religious paintings
Individual religiosity, mystique and Calvinism
Inner quality [seelenhaftigkeit]
Religious-artistic creation
Light: its individuality and immanence
Excursus: what do we see in a work of art?
Dogmatic contents
In conclusion
The capacity to create and to fashion
Antitheses in art
Appendix: works of art mentioned in the text with their dates and current locations
References for the editor's introduction and footnotes.
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Rembrandt : an essay in the philosophy of art by Georg Simmel. ISBN 9780415926706. Published by Routledge in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
