Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only a due recognition of the kind aid extended to art-study among the students by the present arrangement of the Gray Collection, that something be said of every series of prints exhibited, and as Rembrandt is a particularly interesting master, something about the fifty etchings by him now to be seen in Gore Hall may not be amiss...
...exceedingly suggestive to have Rembrandt placed before one, directly after Durer, - for these two masters afford a very striking contrast. Rembrandt has been called subjective in his method of seeing and representing things, while Durer is plainly objective. Rembrandt often chooses a scene, not because it strikes him as particularly worthy of representation, but because it will allow him to apply in some striking manner his favorite chiaro-oscuro, - witness "The Flight into Egypt," - while Durer has in his mind solely the object as he sees it. Durer is continually struggling to express "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing...
...relation of Rembrandt to Durer may be compared to that of Euripides to Sophocles. Euripides does not scruple to put a fine maxim into the mouth of any character whose surroundings suggest it to him, even if it is out of keeping, while Sophocles sacrifices everything to making each character in his plays a whole, refusing to be misled by his own passing thoughts...
Among the etchings is a "St. Jerome in his Study," which we can compare with Durer's treatment of the same subject. In Durer's engraving everything is plain and clear. St. Jerome sits in his study, which is flooded with morning sunlight. Rembrandt gives us St. Jerome in a study which we are tempted to think partly underground. He is meditating, and the shades of twilight almost hide him from our sight. Behind him, by dint of repeated efforts, we discover a dingy stone staircase, which either goes up into a dark entry or ends at a door...
...Durers on the stand in the Library have given place to a set of Rembrandts about fifty in number. There are also half a dozen prints from Rembrandt's immediate followers. Many of these engravings are very beautiful, and it is interesting to know that most of them are Rembrandt's own work, and that he has, very probably, handled the very paper on which they are printed...