Rembrandt

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REMBRANDT
Complete Etchings
The profound humanity of Rembrandt's art is acknowledged everywhere. No artist seems to speak in deeper, quieter tones than he, tones that once heard seem to echo unforgettably. In the generous format of this volume, the joo-odd etchings of Rembrandt's lifetime are presented complete, nearly all in their original size. To respond to the art of Rembrandt is one of the great experiences open to mankind, and there is no finer approach than through the intimate knowledge of his etchings, made possible by this book.
The artist's life is well known: his early ? ¦ - J i-K r-- wealth and fame, his short-lived marriage,
' his later withdrawal into comparative soli-
tude and obscurity. Rembrandt painted throughout his life, but painting did not exhaust his creativity, no more than did his countless drawings. With an equal constancy, he developed into true magnificence the techniques of etching and dry point.
Htching was not widely practiced... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'iV I
REMBRANDT
Complete Etchings
The profound humanity of Rembrandt's art is acknowledged everywhere. No artist seems to speak in deeper, quieter tones than he, tones that once heard seem to echo unforgettably. In the generous format of this volume, the joo-odd etchings of Rembrandt's lifetime are presented complete, nearly all in their original size. To respond to the art of Rembrandt is one of the great experiences open to mankind, and there is no finer approach than through the intimate knowledge of his etchings, made possible by this book.
The artist's life is well known: his early ? ¦ - J i-K r-- wealth and fame, his short-lived marriage,
' his later withdrawal into comparative soli-
tude and obscurity. Rembrandt painted throughout his life, but painting did not exhaust his creativity, no more than did his countless drawings. With an equal constancy, he developed into true magnificence the techniques of etching and dry point.
Htching was not widely practiced before Rembrandt. He made of its delicate lines printed on white paper an art of unparalleled variety, from sophisticated simplicity to the richness of plates reworked over and . i ¦ o^cr again. The reader will see the young
Rembrandt's works, so startling in style and subject, then the broadening of his mature work into compositions of every j'''i 'i' —landscapes, portraits, and scenes
( i 11 l^jMjj^^^H which may be domestic, religious, or l','/, 'i' I .'UÉMBÉi^^^l sometimes, in his incomparable fashion, " simultaneously both. The etcher's needle is 4-
as natural an extension of the artist's hand and heart as his paint brush and his reed pen.
, I . The importance of this book for all
'',1 '1 lovers of Rembrandt's art, for all graphic
1','¦,!('artists, for all connoisseurs, collectors, and I'l 11 ' students, will be apparent at once. The
1','llf'i I i I' ' I i 'J^H reader will be profitably guided by Mr. 1' '.Í ' I ,'i'j'ld^l Boon's text and will refer to it again and
again, finding in it the scholarly and sensitive answers of an authority whose life and career has been spent among Rembrandt's 1,1 l|,n; I works. As Chief Curator of Prints in the
Vi'/ i ''i i i'l^^^l Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, which houses
one of the world's largest collections of
____Rembrandt's etchings, Mr. K. G. Boon is
'"""linate and ana-
'''!¦?'li I' graphic work of the greatest of
yiUj 'ill'. '^^H Dutch artists.
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