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Hieronymus Cock (1518-1570) was an Antwerp painter and printmaker. Together with his wife, he was one of the first to establish a publishing house for prints. From 1548 their firm “At the Sign of the Four Winds” issued hundreds of important etchings and engravings. Prints after frescoes and paintings by Italian artists Raphael and Bronzino, the first series of classical ruins, antique sculpture, as well as designs by such Northern artists as Maarten van Heemskerck and Frans Floris were distributed all over Europe and helped to spread Renaissance ideals of beauty. It was Cock who spotted the talent of Pieter Bruegel, an artist who would eventually supply Cock with more than sixty designs for prints.

El maestro holandés Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) fue uno de los más grandes dibujantes de todos los tiempos. Incluso los bocetos pequeños y rápidos revelan su incomparable habilidad para capturar composiciones, figuras, grupos, gestos humanos, expresiones faciales y paisajes con solo unos pocos trazos. Aunque algunos de los dibujos de Rembrandt sirvieron como estudios preparatorios para pinturas y grabados, la mayoría son obras conceptuales en las que investigó motivos de movimiento y expresión, registrando ideas para sus propias obras y las producidas por sus alumnos en su taller. Esta monografía compacta y exquisitamente producida abarca obras de toda la carrera de Rembrandt y presenta el espectro completo de los géneros y materiales utilizados en los dibujos. Además, investigaciones recientes han revelado que muchos dibujos que antes se atribuían a Rembrandt fueron, de hecho, realizados por sus alumnos. De los 126 dibujos de la importante colección de Berlín de la que este volumen extrae sus ilustraciones, solo 55 se consideran aún obras originales del maestro. Cada uno de estos se presenta aquí dentro de un texto académico de Holm Bevers. También se examina una selección de 25 dibujos de los alumnos de Rembrandt a la luz de la investigación más reciente.

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The Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam contains some of the most important drawings by Old Masters of Dutch, Flemish, Italian, English, French and Spanish schools from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. This catalogue includes 104 drawings that range from very early German and Italian artists such as Pisanello and Gozzoli to early Netherlandish artists such as Schonganer, Altdorfer, the van Eyck School, Hieronymus Bosch, to nineteenth century French artists such as Ingres, Manet, Degas and Cézanne. Other distinguished artists represented are Durer, Rembrandt, Rubens and Watteau. The catalogue entries contain extensive literature on the drawings as well as information on provenance and technique. Discussion on matters of attribution and information is given in the footnotes and not in the running text, leaving the entries to be read as small essays on the drawings. All the 104 drawings are reproduced full-page in colour. Also included are 220 comparative illustrations in black and white of similar drawings by the same artist, or other related works of art.