item: #1 of 5 id: 17215 author: Menpes, Mortimer title: Rembrandt date: None words: 13121 flesch: 70 summary: Suppose he stands before the revolving frame of Rembrandt etchings, idly pushing from right to left the varied creations of the master, would he be charmed? The new era in Rembrandt literature began with Kolloff's _Rembrandt's Leben und Werke_, published in 1854. keywords: art; book; christ; day; etchings; face; gallery; hermitage; life; light; man; master; petersburg; pictures; portrait; rembrandt; work; world cache: 17215.txt plain text: 17215.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 18118 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters date: None words: 72504 flesch: 77 summary: Great men never come singly, says Emerson. When great men in gilt and gold braid, with scarlet sashes across their breasts, and dangling swords that clicked and clanged on the stone pavement, strode by, rusty, dusty little Michel refused to take off his cap and wish them Long life and God's favor, as his father ordered. keywords: age; art; artist; boy; canvas; church; day; days; dore; duke; dyck; face; fact; family; father; fine; fortuny; genius; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; house; joshua; king; landseer; life; little; look; love; making; man; mariano; master; meissonier; men; michelangelo; mind; mother; nature; painter; paris; people; picture; place; portraits; rembrandt; reynolds; rome; rubens; scheffer; set; spirit; studio; things; thought; time; titian; van; way; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 18118.txt plain text: 18118.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 20607 author: Israƫls, Jozef title: Rembrandt date: None words: 8910 flesch: 71 summary: Vosmaer and Michel have restored it as though it were a discoloured picture, and those who hail Rembrandt master may do so without mental reservation. She bore him two children, who seem to have died young, and, curiously enough, her position in the house was accepted by young Titus Rembrandt, who, when he was nearing man's estate, started, in partnership with her, to deal in pictures and works of art--a not very successful attempt to support the establishment in comfort. keywords: amsterdam; art; artist; life; man; master; painter; picture; portrait; rembrandt; saskia; time; work; years cache: 20607.txt plain text: 20607.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 22690 author: Burnet, John title: Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. date: None words: 34161 flesch: 77 summary: [Illustration: DOCTOR FAUSTUS] I may appear to have dwelt too long upon this subject of engraving, but as the etchings of Rembrandt form so large a portion of his popularity, we cannot enter too minutely into the various sources of their excellence. Other smaller works are in the collections of Sir Robert Peel, Samuel Rogers, Esq., Sir Abraham Hume, and the Marquis of Hertford. keywords: art; beard; book; bust; character; christ; colour; dark; ditto; effect; figure; fur; hand; head; landscape; left; light; man; nature; objects; painting; picture; portrait; prints; rembrandt; reynolds; rubens; seated; sir; subject; table; titian; van; view; woman; works cache: 22690.txt plain text: 22690.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 26496 author: Morse, Peter title: Rembrandt's Etching Technique: An Example date: None words: 5873 flesch: 74 summary: [4] The general location of this scene, as well as many others in Rembrandt's oeuvre, has been identified by Frits Lugt (_Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam_, Berlin, 1920, pp. 136-140, revised from the original Dutch, _ Stopping-out is, of course, a means of creating variations in the printed intensity of etched lines. keywords: drawing; drypoint; etching; figure; ground; lines; plate; print; rembrandt cache: 26496.txt plain text: 26496.txt