Etcher unfolds the richness and diversity of Rembrandt's career as an etcher in the context of his paintings and drawings. Illustrated with some 2oo works in all three media, this book traces the remarkable evolution of Rembrandt's art over four decades,from the robust physical energy of his early productions to the breadth, simplicity, and meditative beauty of his later work.
Rembrandt changed the course of art history not only as a painter, but also as a draftsman and printmaker. His output of nearly 30o etchings represents a lifelong commitment to printmaking unequaled by any other seventeenth-century painter, and comparable only to Picasso in our own time.Rembrandt's Journey: Painter" Drafisman " Etcher unfolds the richness and diversity of Rembrandt's career as an etcher in the context of his paintings and drawings. Illustrated with some 2oo works in all three media, this book traces the remarkable evolution of Rembrandt's art over four decades,from the robust physical energy of his early productions to the breadth, simplicity, and meditative beauty of his later work. It establishes new and important connections among these works and among the three media that the artist explored throughout his career. It encompasses the wide range of his vision, from the tragic and spiritual to the earthy and comic. And it gives full due to Rembrandt's narrative sensibilities, showing how he endowed his figures (particularly in biblical scenes) with unprecedented psychological nuance and vividness. Published to accompany the first comprehensive American survey of his work in decades, Rembrandt's Journey offers a fresh, authoritative view of this endlessly familiar, yet still unknown, artist.
Directors' Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rembrandt's Artistic Journey
CLIFFORD S. ACKLEY
Rembrandt as Actor and Dramatist: Gesture and Body Language in the Biblical Etchings
CLIFFORD S. ACKLEY
Rembrandt's Oil Sketches
RONNI BAER
Looking over Rembrandt's Shoulder:
The Printmaker at Work
THOMAS E. RASSIEUR
Catalogue
CLIFFORD S. ACKLEY, THOMAS E. RASSIEUR
SUE WELSH REED~ AND WILLIAM W. ROBINSON
Use of the Catalogue
Exhibition List
KATE HARPER AND THOMAS E. RASSIEUR
Chronology
JOANNA KARLGAARD AND THOMAS E. RASSIEUR
Materials and Techniques
DEBORAH LA CAMERA, RHONA MACBETH,
AND KIMBERLY NICHOLS
References
KATE HARPER