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Innovations in Printmaking: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries
5/12/2001 - 9/9/2001
The Norton Museum of Art opens a new exhibition entitled
Innovations in Printmaking: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries on May
12, 2001. This magnificent selection of seventeenth-century prints
is drawn from the permanent collection of the Norton Museum of Art.
Innovations in Printmaking: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries surveys
an historically dynamic and diverse period in printmaking, featuring
11 artists and 25 works by Flemish, Dutch, Italian, French and Czech
masters. Along with Rembrandt, the exhibition includes the work of
such artists as Stefano della Bella, a Florentine who worked for
long periods of time throughout his career for the powerful Medici
family; the prolific artist Jacob Jordaens and Lucas van Uden, both
of whom worked mainly in Antwerp; the astonishingly gifted
portraitist, Robert Nanteuil, who was court draughtsman to King
Louis XIV of France; and Wenzel Hollar, a Czech artist, who worked
not only in his native land, but traveled widely in Europe with the
Earl of Arundel, and finally settled in London. The work of these
artists, and others included in the show, represent a broad and
illuminating cross section of styles and themes in the art of
seventeenth-century etching and engraving. The prints included in
the exhibition range from small genre sketches, to large, highly
elaborate compositions, some of which were produced in various
versions.
Rembrandt was without question one of the greatest etchers and
engravers of all time. His graphic output is impressive for the
number and variety of its subjects, his consummate knowledge of the
technique, and his expressiveness. For Rembrandt, as well as his
contemporaries, prints fulfilled a different function than painting,
but remained first and foremost a formidable field of figurative and
technical research. In the print media, artists studied totally new
themes, innovatively developing the possibilities underlying the
relationship between black and white, light and shade. The skill
with which Rembrandt, and other artists of his time, printed the
plates, the exceptional control they exercised over the chemical
solutions necessary for the process, and the knowledge that they
could produce a considerable number of copies convinced them that
etchings and engravings could assist them in the teaching of the
craft of painting, especially in the workshop. Prints also satisfied
a large and growing middle-class market for images, and in the case
of Rembrandt and others, provided much of their earnings.
Innovations in Printmaking: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries is
organized by the Norton Museum of Art.
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of Art is a major cultural attraction in Florida.
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collection featuring
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