Designed as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in 1994, this offers a survey of the paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and applied art produced 1580-1620. The book contains five essays followed by a catalogue which reproduces work from the era along with data on the artists.

Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620

Arts & Photography

Reinier Baarsen

Ariane van Suchtelen

Ger Luijten

Walter Kloek

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Rembrandt was the most original printmaker of all time. In no fewer than 300 images, he covered the full range of styles and subjects for which he is celebrated, including self-portraits, scenes from the Bible, vignettes of every day, and character studies. Rembrandt was famously experimental, and often reworked his copper plates to improve and extend their expressive power, creating startlingly modern results.   Rembrandt the Printmaker, compiled by three leading authorities on Rembrandt, and published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and British Museum (London), aims to illustrate a selection of his finest prints. Exciting new areas of research have opened up in recent years, making it possible to follow the progress of Rembrandt's work on each plate and also revealing details of his habit of revising the images at various times throughout his life. All of these new insights are presented to the wider public for the first time in Rembrandt the Printmaker, which is lavishly illustrated with 80 color and 320 black/white images.

Rembrandt the Printmaker

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Erik Hinterding

Ernst van de Wetering

Crafts & Hobbies

British Museum Press

<p>This fully illustrated, 352 page exhibition catalogue, edited by Huigen Leeflang and Ger Luijten, accompanied the first major retrospective devoted to the Netherlandish virtuoso Hendrick Goltzius-one of the most versatile and accomplished figures in the history of art. "Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch Master (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints, and Paintings," an international loan exhibition of more than 160 works, spanned the artist's entire career and demonstrated his legendary mastery of a remarkably wide range of media, subject matter, and styles-from extravagantly complex mythological scenes in prints, to sensitively observed studies from nature, to sumptuously colored oil paintings on canvas and copper. Internationally acclaimed in his day as the leading artistic personality of the Netherlands, Goltzius's reputation was soon eclipsed by the achievements of the seventeenth-century painters of Holland's Golden Age. It is only in the last half-century that his pivotal importance as the supreme exponent of Netherlandish mannerism has been appreciated fully. It is less widely recognized that he was a pioneer in the rise of Dutch realism and classicism. Roughly half of the exhibition was devoted to Goltzius's important activities as printmaker, and included images such as the celebrated The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche, in which the mannerist love of artifice and exaggeration is most fully expressed. The group of sixty-nine drawings in the exhibition featured a number of his famous large-scale pen works-including the spectacular, seven-by-five-foot Venus, Ceres, and Bacchus-as well as postage-stamp-size portraits in metalpoint and some of the first realistic renderings of the Dutch landscape. The group of thirteen oil paintings-a medium Goltzius took up only late in his career-was the largest ever assembled, and included the magnificent Danaë, notable for its jewel-like colors and unabashed observation of the female nude.</p>

Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings

Huigen Leeflang

WAANDERS & METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Dawn of the golden age: Northern Netherlandish art, 1580-1620

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Yale University Press [distributor]

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