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Article: Rats, global poverty, and paying the piper.(ABOUT THE COVER)(Cover story)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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"I frankly consider him a great virtuoso," said Italian painter Guercino of Rembrandt van Rijn. Guercino (1591-1666) was referring to the legendary master not as painter or portraitist but as etcher because it was etchings that built Rembrandt's reputation during his lifetime (1). The first to fully exploit this technique, which dates back to 14th-century armor ornamentation, he left behind some 300 fine prints, a benchmark for posterity. Most were small, displayed not on walls but in albums like early photographs, rested on tables for a closer look.
Etchings are created by drawing on a resin- or wax-coated metal plate with a ...