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Show such Italianate Dutchmenas Jan Both, Nicolaes Berchem, and Karel Dujardin, whose idealized type of the Campagna are in striking contrast with th realistic interpretations of native life by those othe Dutch masters who, staying at home, followed th lead of the pioneer in this field, the Flemish painter Pieter (Peasant) Breughel Chief among these, of course, was Rembrandt, greatestofall figure-etchersintherange of hisobservation in the depth of his penetration, in the power and varietyof hisexpression.Someof his earliest plates wer coarsely executed but highly characteristic studie of beggars,in which it is thought he mayhave bee influenced by Callot who also etched a series, Le Gueux. Heexcelledinsuch genre piecesas The Blin Fiddler and The RatKiller. And even in his grea religious compositions he was accustomed to dra exclusively upon the life of the streets about him This is one trait,among many, that makes Rem brandt seem so modern to us today, and that make somany modern artists take him asa master On the side of tense dramatic interest sustaine through a vast sweep of character, and of profoun 'human sympathy most nobly and tenderly inter preted, thesescriptural plates by which,with certai of his portraits-the Jan Six, Jan Lutma, Old Haar ing,and others-Rembrandtis best known, probabl culminate in the celebrated Hundred Guilder Prin of Christ Healing the Sick. From a technical standpoint, however, thereareothersfar more interesting Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |