Rembrandt van Rijn, Head of a Man in a Turban, around 1661, oil on panel, 24.8 x 19.1 cm, gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2007, acc. no. 50-001
Exhibitions
Poet, Priest, Dauber: The Painter in the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
The Bader Gallery
17 January - 9 May 2010
This selection from the permanent collection explores the cultural and social roles attached to the art of painting during the 1500s and 1600s. Some of these works show the ambition to compete with established arts like poetry, others the desire to serve the Church or the layperson in the religious turmoil of the Reformation. Still others aimed to supply the steady market for genres like portraiture, which despite their aesthetic achievements still had to contend with the former status of painters as artisans, or "daubers".
David de Witt, Bader Curator of European Art