Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print His Master Etching

by Golahny, Amy

• ISBN13: 9781848224681
• ISBN10: 1848224680
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-03-01
• Publisher: Lund Humphries

Summary

Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is one of Rembrandt's most compositionally complex and visually beautiful works.

This book gives a full overview of the fascinating story surrounding this print, from its genesis and market value to attitudes towards it in the present day. Focusing on the tradition of printmaking as well as the reception of the print in Rembrandt's time, Golahny explores the ways the artist made visual references to the work of such masters as Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, while uniquely combining aspects of Christ's ministry.

Placing the work within its wider cultural and historical context, Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print offers an original and engaging approach to current Rembrandt scholarship and is essential reading for anyone interested in the work of one of the most famous artists of the Dutch Global Age.

Author Biography

Amy Golahny is an art historian and writer. She is Logan A. Richmond Professor of Art History Emerita at Lycoming College and Past President of the Historians of Netherlandish Art. She has written and edited numerous books including Rembrandt: Studies in His Varied Approaches to Italian Art (Brill, 2020), Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History (Amsterdam University Press, 2003) and The Eye of the Poet: Studies in the Reciprocity of the Literary and Visual Arts (Bucknell University Press, 1996).