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Rembrandt van Rijn’s paintings made him the star of the seventeenth-century Dutch golden age, but he was also an extraordinarily productive and original printmaker. In more than 300 known etchings, he covered the full range of subjects and styles for which he is celebrated, including self-portraits, scenes from the Bible, landscapes, vignettes of everyday life and character studies. Each of his prints is both a beautiful work in itself and an X-ray of the strategies of composition and scene-setting that went into his paintings. Rembrandt as Printmaker presents 69 of Rembrandt’s finest prints from The British Museum, which is widely considered to hold the world’s broadest collection. It is published on the occasion of the four-hundred-year anniversary of the artist’s birth.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1271996 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-15
• Released on: 2006-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

From Library Journal
This is the very thorough catalog of a major international show of Rembrandt's prints that resulted from combining holdings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the British Museum in London. Written by leading experts from both countries, it is sure to become the new standard, not because of radical analysis or unorthodox approach but because of its completeness. Although there is some new information based on "soft" paper radiography, the authors openly acknowledge their debt to earlier catalogs. Despite the title, the book focuses more on the prints themselves and how they were made than on biography. However, much can be extracted from learning precisely how this artist went about his craft. Though filled with clear, excellent illustrations, this well-documented book has much technical detail that will be of greater interest to printmakers and art historians than casual readers. Still, this is an important reference for libraries of all kinds and is highly recommended for academic and art school libraries. Susan Lense, Upper Arlington P.L., OH
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Erik Hinterding studied for his PhD on Rembrandt's etchings at Utrecht university. He is the author of The History of Rembrandt's Copperplates. Ger Luijten is chief curator of prints at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. He is the author (with E. de Jongh) of Mirror of Everyday Life: Genre Prints in the Netherlands 1550-1700. He was also one of the organizers of the exhibition 'Anthony Van Dyck as a Printmaker', part of the official celebrations of the artist's 400th anniversary in Antwerp in 1999. Martin Royalton-Kisch is is a curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. He has published widely on the art of the Netherlands, and his books include Adriaen van de Venne's Album, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle in the British Museum and The Light of Nature: Landscape Drawings by Van Dyck and his Contemporaries.