Multiple Fascinations: Dutch and Flemish Prints From Bruegel to Rembrandt November 20, 2006

From the satire of Pieter Bruegel's peasants to the contemplative gaze of Rembrandt's self-portraits, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish prints delight and inspire. As part of a Wesleyan University seminar, students selected prints from the treasures of the Davison Art Center collection to discuss what fascinated them most. The exhibition explores seventeenth-century ways of ordering scientific and mystical knowledge, narrative techniques, the representation of peasants, the Dutch landscape and the evolution of the "unfinished" print.