Word: rembrandt
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...sculpture, including Andrea Della Robbia's Virgin and Child and Mino da Fiesole's bust, St. John the Baptist. Seven of the rooms are devoted to painting: 17th century French works by Stella, Le Brun and Jouvenet, as well as Golden Age Dutch and Flemish canvases by Rubens, Jordaens, Rembrandt, Ter Borch and Jan Brueghel. A research facility is available for the study of 8,000 Italian, French, German and Flemish engravings and drawings that span the past four centuries. Newly opened as well is the Art History Library, with 30,000 volumes and paintings by artists including Matisse...
...Paintings from the Collection. Through Jan. 2. Includes over 80 European paintings. African and Oceanic Sculpture: Treasures from a Private Collection. Through July 3. The objects are mostly wood and terracotta, ranging from a miniature wooden mask from Zaire to a monumental yoruba veranda post from Nigeria. Rubens, Bellange, Rembrandt: European Graphic Art, 1580 - 1660. Through Feb. 6. Ninety prints, drawings and illustrated books explore the rich variety and visual extravagance of European graphich art from the final phases of the Renaissance through the apogee of Baroque. In and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the American Social Landscape. Through...
...works from the 260,000-piece permanent collection. The 350-piece exhibit includes a number of works that are rarely seen owing to their fragility and sensitivity to light. Among the highlights: Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte -- 1884, the masterpiece most closely identified with the institute; Rembrandt's Young Woman at an Open Half-Door; Degas's pastel On the & Stage; Cezanne sketchbooks; Picasso prints and Walker Evans photographs. Through...
...Rembrandt, for example, used the story of Potiphar's Wife to illustrate the insatiable nature of women's sexual desire, how women could become dangerous when deprived of sexual pleasure, and how society should therefore ensure that women are safely married away. And of course, the group of prints entitled "Eve Sets the Standard" portray woman's inherent vulnerability to evil and fatal powers of persuasion...
While the exhibit features notables such as Rembrandt and Albrecht Altdorfer, the heart of its message lies in the fact that the body of this new, Old Testament moralizing on women's roles was not created by an artistic elite, but rather by the popular press. The exhibit stresses the fact that these prints were intended for a wide, though perhaps sophisticated, audience, and that they were bought for their content, not their artistic value...