Dutch engravers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: Rembrandt, Schelte a Bolswert, Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, Van de Passe family, Isidore van Kinsbergen, Abraham Blooteling, Lucas van Leyden, Hessel Gerritsz, Jacob de Gheyn III, Hendrik Goltzius, Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Cornelis Cort, Pierre Lyonnet, Jacobus Houbraken, Jan Saenredam, Gerard de Jode, Jan van de Velde, Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Jacob Matham, Michael Burghers, Hendrik Bary, Jan van Almeloveen, Joachim Wtewael, Reinier van Persijn, Jan Harmensz. Muller, Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, Antonie Sminck Pitloo, Hendrik Hondius I, Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Hubertus Quellinus, Roelant Roghman, John Faber Senior, Hendrick Danckerts, Bertil Schmüll, Peter van Bleeck, Romeyn de Hooghe, Dancker Danckerts, Pieter Quast, Pieter van Abeele, Master of the Gardens of Love, Christina Chalon, Jacob Cats, Jacobus Buys, Cornelis Apostool, Willem Hondius, John Faber Junior, Hermanus van Brussel, Johan Bara. Excerpt: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch pronunciation: , 15 July 1606 - 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity. In his paintings and prints he exhibited knowledge of classical iconography, which he molded to fit the requirements of his own experience; thus, the depiction of a biblical scene was informed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the specific text, his assimilation of classical composition, and his observations of Amsterdam's Jewish population. Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called "one of the great prophets of civilization." Self-portrait in a cap, with eyes wide open, etching and burin, 1630Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on 15 July 1606 in Leiden, in the Dutch Republic, nowadays the Netherlands. He was the ninth child born to Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn and Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck. His family was quite well-to-do; his father was a miller and his mother was a baker's daughter. As a boy he attended Latin school and was enrolled at the University of Leiden, although according to a contemporary he had a greater inclination towards painting; he was soon apprenticed to a Leiden history painter, Ja