The more than 100 dramatic and richly executed prints and illustrated books in this exhibition are broadly representative of exploding international interest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for Dutch and Flemish prints. Drawn primarily from The New York Public Library's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, with selections from the Spencer Collection, Netherlandish Prints at The New York Public Library opened April 24 at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and will remain on view through June 26, 1999.
Admission is free.
For example, evidence of public commissions for Counter-Reformation subjects can be seen in the south, but not in the north. On the other hand, an insistently market-oriented approach dominated in both the north and south. Upon his return from Italy in 1609, Pieter Paul Rubens was named painter of the household of the Spanish-appointed archduke and archduchess of the Netherlands, whose portraits, engraved after Rubens, are included in the exhibition. Rubens began in earnest to oversee the production of engravings after his paintings shortly before 1620. St. Ignatius Loyola Healing a Demoniac , ca.