Andrew Weislogel, “The WIRE Project: Crowd-Sourcing Watermark Identification toward a Broader Understanding of Rembrandt’s Etchings”

This talk was part of the symposium Rembrandt and Leiden: New Perspectives that took place at Agnes Etherington Art Centre on 8 November 2019. The symposium featured new research by international scholars on Rembrandt and his circle, Leiden and Dutch culture in the seventeenth century, connecting the exhibition Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges with new perspectives on the artist and his era.

Andrew Weislogel is the Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art at Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Dr Weislogel has organized numerous exhibitions at the Johnson, including Etchings by Rembrandt from the Collection of S. William Pelletier (2004); The New and Unknown World: Exploration and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age (2011); and most recently Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings (2017), whose catalogue was awarded the 2019 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Prize at College Art Association.