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REMBRANDT'S PROMISE by Barbara Leahy1642 The Dutch Golden Age is underway, with Amsterdam at the height of its powers. Geertje, an impoverished widow, enters a melting pot of wealth and culture when she becomes nursemaid in the house of renowned painter Rembrandt. After Rembrandt's wife dies, Geertje is drawn deeper into his world. Despite her friends' warnings, she begins a passionate affair with the master of light and shadow, with devastating results. Based on a true story of love,

examining three decades of his critically engaged practice interrogating our relationship with nature

The accompanying catalogue to the exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery

with profound insight

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his shifting perceptions of his own strengths and weaknesses

Known for its stream-of-consciousness style and experimental structure

Where once clear certainties and indisputable forms prevailed

Art heavyweights Vincent van Gogh and Jean-Michel Basquiat have been mythologised

Ulysses by James Joyce tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904

highlighting the influence of his peers and other artists

setting Bacon in the context of Romantic Modernism's confidence in the unconscious as a source

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