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Rembrandt's Elephant: Following in Hansken's Footsteps

Door Michiel Roscam Abbing

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#434165-KG30
Titel
Rembrandt's Elephant: Following in Hansken's Footsteps
Auteur
Abbing, Michiel Roscam
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Leporello Publishers
Jaar van uitgave
2021
ISBN10
9079624233
ISBN13
9789079624232
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, numerous illustrations in colour and b/w, square (circa 21x21cm).
Samenvatting
Elephants used to be a great rarity in Europe: there were only a few elephants in the continent in the entire seventeenth century. Hansken, a female elephant who was born on the island of Sri Lanka and arrived in Amsterdam in the summer of 1633, is the most famous ? and not just because Rembrandt drew her. Cornelis van Groenevelt, Hansken? s owner, earned a handsome living by teaching her tricks and touring the continent with her. Wherever she went, Hansken evoked amazement and admiration. People examined her, measured her and wrote down what they had seen.0Michiel Roscam Abbing tells Hansken? s story based on a meticulous analysis of the sources. He has reconstructed the route Hansken took. The traces left by Hansken in European cultural history also form a potent picture of the age. Afte... (Lees verder)r Hansken? s death in 1655, her skeleton became the object of study, enabling myths about giants to be refuted. She was even used for the first scientific description of her species, Elephas maximus.0As a follow-up to 'Rembrandt? s Elephant, The Story of Hansken' (2006, ISBN 9789080874565), which was also published by Leporello.00Translation of ' Rembrandts olifant. In het spoor van Hansken', ISBN 9789079624195, Amsterdam: Leporello (2016). Translation by Clare Wilkinson.
Pagina's
148
Conditie
Goed — First endpaper missing.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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