Rembrandts Etchings: Self Portraits No artist has left a loftier or more penetrating personal testament than Rembrandt van Rijn. In more than 90 portraits of himself that date from the outset of his career in the 1620s to the year of his death in 1669, he created an autobiography that arguably remains unparalleled to this day. For the world in Rembrandts time, a print, etching, engraving or woodcut filled a need that today is met jointly by a work of art and a news photograph. Printmaking satisfied their curiosity about distant places and people and it was, other than the printed word itself, the 17th Centurys major means of mass communication. Publishers and artists themselves, issued and circulated quantities of prints. Some took the form of simple broadsheets; others illustrated books; others reproduced privately owned paintings inaccessible to public view.
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