Students, Faculty, and Alums are welcome to attend.
“Rembrandt’s Portraits: Public Spirit and Private Character in the Dutch Golden Age” presented by Stephanie Dickey, Alfred Bader Chair in Art History. November 24, 6:30 pm, Room 1030 CASL Building. Refreshments will follow the illustrated lecture.
Lecture:
Painted and etched portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) have long been admired for their ability to capture both the public spirit of Dutch civic identity and the private nuances of individual personality and mood. In striving to depict not only outward likeness but also inner character, Rembrandt challenged the literary critique of visual portraiture as an art form concerned with surface appearances only.
Speaker Bio:
Stephanie Dickey received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 1994. She holds the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and previously taught at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. She is the author of two books and numerous essays focusing on printmaking and portraiture in the art of Rembrandt and his circle. Most recently, she contributed to an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2008), on Rembrandt’s colleague Jan Lievens, for which she wrote the catalogue essay, “Jan Lievens and Printmaking.” Her book, Rembrandt: Portraits in Print (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.), was selected by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2004.