Introduction

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hi everyone my name is Danielle and I’m

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the collections manager and curatorial

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associate at the aga today we’re looking

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at our final work in our tour of Leiden

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circa 1630 Rembrandt emerges now this is

Rembrandt emerges

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a Rembrandt print that was not

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originally part of the exhibition but

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that we added for the presentation here

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in Edmonton it’s part of five prints

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that we borrowed from the University of

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Alberta museum’s collection so these

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really showcase Rembrandt’s later

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printmaking when he was established in

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Amsterdam and they highlight some of the

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Rembrandt’s that we have in our very own

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City of Edmonton printmaking was really

Printmaking

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the main source of Rembrandt’s

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international fame in his lifetime

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prints were reproducible relatively

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inexpensive and can travel easily

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meaning they could reach a wider

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geographical market so Rembrandt not

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only used prints to copy his paintings

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and promote his paintings but he

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actually created original works of art

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in print he started experimenting with

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printmaking when he lived in Leiden in

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the latter half of the 1620s and it’s

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unclear where he would have learned so

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people speculate that he was largely

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self-taught but clearly he would have

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been looking at older Dutch and Flemish

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masters as well as learning from other

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print makers in the city such as Yan Van

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Vleet this print was made in 1643 and it

Landscape

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is an example of his mature and unique

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technique which combined itching also

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with engraving and drypoint

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to achieve a range of effects it’s also

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an example of landscape which we have

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yet to see in this exhibition

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Rembrandt didn’t really start

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introducing landscape into his work

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until about 1640 so while he would often

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draw his landscapes outside in the

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countryside surrounding appt stirred am

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usually has metal plates for etching

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we’re done in the studio and are kind of

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poetic inventions of what he would have

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seen outdoors so this work is really a

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marvelous example of light and dark we

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on the left-hand side you’ll see these

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billowing clouds and

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rain storm falling down on the right

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hand side the landscape is basked and

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light so you have this sense of an

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impending summer storm or maybe a summer

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storm that’s rolling away as you look

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closer at the work you’ll see it’s

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dotted with human presence on the

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left-hand side you have a man fishing

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and a companion perhaps his wife who

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appears rather uninterested up on the

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sunny hill you have an artist sketching

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and down in the dark foreground bushes

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which you might not even be able to see

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in the film but a couple two figures

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embracing seeking some refuge in the in

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the dark bushes and then in the

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background on the horizon is a town I

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remember I was really interested in the

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border between cities and the

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countryside and really he was quite

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interested in the effects of a

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burgeoning industrial economy on the

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sublimity of nature this is our final

Outro

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stop in our virtual tour of the

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exhibition Leiden circus 1630 Rembrandt

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emerges I hope you’ve enjoyed it and if

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you have any questions at all or want to

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see images of any other artworks please

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send us an email or leave us comments in

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