17世纪，欧洲与亚洲、非洲和黎凡特之间的贸易蓬勃发展，而阿姆斯特丹是这些贸易活动的枢纽，它进口了大量的外国物品，有力地刺激了众多荷兰艺术家的想象力。伦勃朗的情况尤其如此，他的好奇心和对对收藏的渴求在他的时代是一个传奇。在他多产的职业生涯中，他在历史画和肖像画等不同类型的作品中汲取了东方的影响，包括他自己采用东方风格服饰的描绘。这本图文并茂的书探讨了伦勃朗和他的同代人在荷兰迅速扩大与非欧洲贸易伙伴的商业和文化交流的大背景下，如何创造性地将东方意象融入自己的作品中。

In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Africa, and the Levant, importing copious amounts of foreign items that powerfully stimulated the imagination of numerous Dutch artists. This was notably the case with Rembrandt, whose curiosity and voraciousness as a collector were legendary in his time. Throughout his prolific career, he drew on Eastern influences in genres as diverse as history painting and portraiture, including depictions in which he himself adopted Oriental styled attire. This lavishly illustrated book explores the inventive ways in which Rembrandt and his contemporaries accommodated Eastern imagery into their own repertoire, set within the wider context of Holland's rapidly expanding commercial and cultural exchange with its non-European trading partners.