Directors’ Foreword

Rogers, Malcolm

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Directors’ Foreword

Malcolm Rogers

Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher

~The exhibition Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher takes us on a voyage through the varied terrain of the evolving work of a tirelessly inventive artist. Rembrandt is the greatest among a legion of seventeenth-century Dutch artists, but he is also—due to his humanity and the immediacy of his touch with...

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Malcolm Rogers

PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21071

Directors’ Foreword

The exhibition Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher takes us on a voyage through the varied terrain of the evolving work of a tirelessly inventive artist. Rembrandt is the greatest among a legion of seventeenth-century Dutch artists, but he is also—due to his humanity and the immediacy of his touch with brush, pen, or etching needle—our contemporary as well.

Rembrandt’s extraordinary self-portraits still convey a vivid sense of direct personal encounter. A unique combination of startling candor and protean role-playing, they epitomize his unrivaled ability to combine keen observation with soaring leaps of the imagination. His religious subjects have a dramatic invention and psychological penetration that make them accessible to viewers no matter what their religious faith or philosophical beliefs. Rembrandt’s vision reshaped our ideas about the expressive potential of his three media—painting, drawing, and etching—and reinvented the genres of portraiture, landscape, and the nude.

It has been several decades since the United States has seen a major loan exhibition that surveyed the unfolding of Rembrandt’s work in all three media. Both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Art Institute of Chicago, co-organizers of this exhibition, have in the last few years through gift and purchase made major acquisitions of Rembrandt etchings and copper plates that have given new depth and meaning to their Rembrandt collections and that are featured here. The exhibition is further enriched by outstandingly important loans from around the world.

We are grateful to our generous sponsors: in Boston, Merrill Lynch, and in Chicago, the Abbott Laboratories Fund, for making it possible to share Rembrandt’s diverse vision of human experience and spirituality with a broad audience.

Malcolm Rogers
Ann and Graham Gund Director
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

James N. Wood
Director and President
The Art Institute of Chicago

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BOOKRembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher

Clifford S. Ackley

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21069

This catalogue surveys the unfolding of Rembrandt van Rijn's art from his early years in Leiden to his later Amsterdam years, using as an organizing framework the artist's extraordinarily diverse and profoundly expressive work in printmaking. The works, which further include paintings and drawings, are grouped by theme, rather than by medium or strict chronology, so as to better illuminate the evolution of Rembrandt's art with regard to style and content. This structure also provides the opportunity to explore certain themes that Rembrandt repeatedly returned to over time, always with a new perspective.

The book also includes a chronology of Rembrandt's life and a useful section on materials and techniques used in seventeenth-century printmaking and painting.

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Author

Clifford S. Ackley

PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Print publication date January 2003 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780878466788

EISBN 9780300260502

Illustrations 299

Print Status out of print

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