Rembrandt was one of the great innovators of art. Over the years his style underwent spectacular changes, arising from an unremitting quest for new ways to bring his work to life. The Rembrandt House Museum is illustrating this life-long quest with an overview of around fifty of his paintings, supported by dozens of drawings and prints. The exhibition, which is one of the main events of the Rembrandt year 2006, contains masterpieces from museums all over the world-many of Rembrandt's works are returning to the house where they were made for the first time in almost four hundred years.
This monograph, published in conjunction with the exhibition Rembrandt—The Quest of a Genius, contains contributions by Ernst van de Wetering and other prominent Rembrandt experts traces this search—and the many roads along which it led him—in a manner that makes it accessible to a wide public.
The Rembrandt Research Project’s most recent discoveries will throw new light on Rembrandt as a creative genius and as the driving force in an extraordinarily productive workshop. We get a glimpse of Rembrandt’s ‘laboratory’—a vibrant centre of artistic activity under his inspiring leadership. And, of course, there is a special focus on the period from 1639 to 1658, when Rembrandt lived and worked in the house which now is known as the Rembrandt House.

There is also a Dutch edition: Rembrandt Zoektocht van een genie