Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher - Hardcover

Rassieur, Thomas; Robinson, William; Ackley, Clifford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878466770 ISBN 13: 9780878466771

Publisher: MFA Publications, 2003

Synopsis

Rembrandt changed the course of art history not only as a painter but also as a draftsman and printmaker. His output of some 300 etchings and drypoints 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 unfolds the richness and diversity of Rembrandt's career as an etcher in the context of his paintings and drawings. Illustrated with nearly 200 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.

About this title

About the Author:

William W. Robinson is the Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: MFA Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0878466770
• ISBN 13: 9780878466771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334