Special Events

Rembrandt
 Etchings

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In celebration of the 400th birthday of Rembrandt, the Williams Center Gallery presents an exhibition of etchings that reveal the breadth of the seventeenth-century Dutch master’s subject matter: portraits, scenes of everyday life, and historical and biblical narratives. Rembrandt worked in three media: painting, drawing, and etching. A superb draftsman, he is acknowledged as one of the foremost masters of etching, creating prints that have the freedom and spontaneity of drawing. He achieved a wide range of tonal variations and textures though expert use of his etching tool, experimenting with the length of time a plate was immersed in acid, and sometimes using drypoint, a technique that does not use acid.

Prints loaned courtesy of Dr. and Mrs. Morton M. Mower.
Exhibition organized by Aaron Young, The Halcyon Group, London, United Kingdom


Tuesday, April 11: Keynote Lecture, 4 p.m.
Dr. Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania
“New Jerusalem: Rembrandt, Christians, and Jews”

Dr. Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, and specialist in painting and graphic art of Northern Europe, will deliver the 2006 Carol P. Dorian ’79 Memorial Lecture in Art History.
Sponsored by the Department of Art.
Williams Center Theater

A reception for the exhibition, Dr. and Mrs. M. Mower, Dr. Larry Silver, and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Dorian, follows the lecture.

Monday, March 27: Brown Bag Lecture, noon
Andrew C. Fix, Department of History
“The Dutch Religious Landscape Around 1600”

Dr. Fix will speak about the reform impulses within the Dutch church from the Middle Ages to 1560 and religious pluralism ca 1600.
Williams Center for the Arts
Monday, April 3: Brown Bag Lecture, noon
Jorge Torres, Department of Music
“Reading, Writing, and Playing: Music Printing in the Seventeenth Century”

Music printing in seventeenth-century musical centers made a gradual shift from moveable type to engraving on copper and pewter plates. The change was due as much to social and political demands as it was to the technical needs of the musicians. By examining contemporary manuscript production of the period, we see that moveable type was no longer capable of conveying the notational nuance of engraved music.
Williams Center 123
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Monday, April 10, Concert, noon
The Practitioners of Musick
Eugene Roan, harpsichord and John Burkhalter, recorder
“Music in Holland from the Age of Rembrandt”

A program of seventeenth-century Dutch music. Works by the following composers will be included: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Jacob van Eyck, Paulus Matthysz, Adriaen Valerius, and Anthoni van Noordt, as well as music from the klavierboeks of Suzanne van Soldt and Isabella Reijnders. Van Soldt and Reijnders were women of noble or gentle birth and skilled players of the harpsichord based on the repertory in their respective "keyboard books.”  
Williams Center Theater

March 19–April 26
“Early Imprints from the Low Countries”

A small selection of sixteenth and seventeenth century imprints from the Rare Book Collection of Skillman Library will be on display in conjunction with the Rembrandt etchings. Included are works from the famed Plantin Press of Antwerp, Europe’s leading printing establishment for nearly two hundred years, ca 1550–1750. Additional works come from the Amsterdam press of Jan Jansson, who earned distinction as a map publisher and who, along with the Blaeu family, helped make the Dutch the preeminent mapmakers of Europe during the age of Rembrandt.
Williams Center Gallery

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last updated April 2, 2006


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