The Glory Of The Golden Age Drawings And Prints

Publikacja towarzysząca wystawie: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 15 kwietnia - 16 lipca 2000.

Publikacja towarzysząca wystawie: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 15 kwietnia - 16 lipca 2000.

Publikacja towarzysząca wystawie: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 15 kwietnia - 16 lipca 2000.

Publikacja towarzysząca wystawie: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 15 kwietnia - 17 września 2000.

This superb book presents 100 notable examples from the Harvard Art Museums’ distinguished collection of Dutch, Flemish, and Netherlandish drawings from the 16th to 18th century. Featuring such masters as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Rembrandt van Rijn, the volume showcases beautiful color illustrations accompanied by insightful commentary on prevalent styles and techniques. Genres that define this artistic period—landscape, scenes of everyday life, portraiture, and still life—are explored in detail. The book also presents the results of new conservation and technical study, including infrared analysis and scientific examinations of drawing materials. This revelatory new research has allowed previously illegible underdrawings and inscriptions in many of the artworks to surface for the first time, shedding light on longstanding mysteries of production and provenance.

Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.