ROANOKE, VA.- "Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt’s Etchings" will be on view at the Taubman Museum of Art beginning November 20, 2009 through February 7, 2010. The exhibition features 35 rare etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn created between 1629 and 1648. As one of the towering figures in the history of art, Rembrandt, a miller’s son from the university town of Leiden, was an artist of unmatched genius. Equally gifted as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, Rembrandt proved himself to be as skillful at making portraits as he was at creating religious and mythological narratives. His landscapes are just as remarkable as
