Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print: His Master Etching [Hardcover]

Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, theHundred Guilder Printis 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 Printoffers 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.

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 includingRembrandt: 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).The first substantial monograph on Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder PrintPreface; Chapter 1: The Hundred Guilder Print: Price and Value; Chapter 2: The Theme of Christ's Ministry; Chapter 3: The Hundred Guilder Print within the Print Tradition; Chapter 4: Technique; Chapter 5: Rembrandt's Life and Work; Chapter 6: Visual and Poetic Reception in Rembrandt's Time; Chapter 7: The Afterlife of The Hundred Guilder Print: Reception in Word and Image to the Present; Conclusion; SeleclCY