Ocean State Libraries

"An introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Rembrandt, with reproductions of his work and an overview of his artistic style and influence."--

"In the last decade of his life, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) undertook a printmaking project that changed the conventions of portraiture. In a series later named The Iconography, he portrayed artists alongside kings, courtiers, and diplomats--a radical departure from preexisting conventions. He also depicted his subjects in novel ways, focusing on their facial features often to the exclusion of symbolic costumes or props. In addition to illustrating...