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Indepth Arts News:
"Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and
Ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631"
2000-09-23 until 2001-01-07
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA,
USA United States of America
Ten paintings, including the Gardner's early Self Portrait, and ten etchings from
collections in the United States and Europe will illuminate Rembrandt's evolving
painting and etching styles as well as his self identity as he sought to place
himself at the forefront of the artistic scene in the Netherlands and beyond
between 1629 and 1631. The exhibition will reevaluate the young Rembrandt in
context of the artistic, economic, intellectual, and cultural influences of the time,
as well as explore the innovative painting and etching techniques he used during
this period.
September 23, 2000-January 7, 2001
'Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and
Ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631'
Ten paintings, including the Gardner's early Self Portrait, and ten etchings from
collections in the United States and Europe will illuminate Rembrandt's evolving
painting and etching styles as well as his self identity as he sought to place
himself at the forefront of the artistic scene in the Netherlands and beyond
between 1629 and 1631. The exhibition will reevaluate the young Rembrandt in
context of the artistic, economic, intellectual, and cultural influences of the time,
as well as explore the innovative painting and etching techniques he used during
this period.
The exhibition catalogue will make a major contribution to scholarship on
Rembrandt. It includes contributions by Arthur Wheelock, curator at the National
Gallery of Art, Christopher White, the renowned Rembrandt scholar and former
director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Mariët Westermann, professor at
Rutgers University, Alan Chong, and Hilliard Goldfarb, curator at the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts and former curator at the Gardner Museum, who
conceived of the exhibition.
The Gardner offers this exploration of Rembrandt's work as part of a
commitment to scholarship and the exploration of new ways of looking at
Rembrandt. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum will offer several
lectures and a scholarly symposium that will examine more closely aspects of
Rembrandt's art. On October 14, the Museum will host Rethinking Rembrandt,
a scholarly symposium. Alan Chong will give an Eye of the Beholder lecture
entitled, Rembrandt, Cinematographer on Thursday, November 30, at 6:30 p.m.
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