Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print

In the last decade of his life, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) undertook a printmaking project that changed the conventions of portraiture. In a series later named the Iconography, he portrayed artists alongside kings, courtiers, and diplomats-a radical departure from preexisting conventions. He also depicted his subjects in novel ways, focusing on their facial features often to the exclusion of symbolic costumes or props. In addition to illustrating approximately 60 works by Van Dyck and other artists from his era-particularly Rembrandt-this catalogue traces the artist's influence over hundreds of years. 

Victoria Sancho Lobis is Prince Trust Associate Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Maureen Warren is curator of European and American art at the Krannert Art Museum.