Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow; Jan Lievens in Black and White: Etchings, Woodcuts, and Collaborations in Print

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=Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Stephanie S. Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen’s University. Recorded on October 26, 2008, this podcast celebrates the major international loan exhibition Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, which was on view at the National Gallery of Art from October 26, 2008, to January 11, 2009. In the first of two lectures, Arthur Wheelock places Lievens in historical context?particularly in relationship to his friend and colleague from Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn?and focuses on the evolution and character of Lievens’ paintings. In the second lecture, Stephanie Dickey examines Lievens’ remarkable achievements as a printmaker.