Hendrick goltzius

Prints

Ahead of his first solo show in New York in eight years, the British artist shows off works in progress inside the studio.

Goltzius' was the greatest engraver after Albrecht Dürer. In the 1570s he was apprenticed to the engraver Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. His first prints were published in Antwerp by Philip Galle and much of his work involved reproducing the designs of ...

Through the centuries there have been many brave men who wrote their name in history with blood. One of these men was the glorious Roman Publius Horatius Cocles, a young officer in the army of the Roman Republic. His name went down in history as synonymous of bravery and sacrifice, which he showed during the battle of Pons Sublicius Bridge in Rome, Italy.

See the technical perfection and unconventional inventions of Hendrick Goltzius at the Kunstmuseum Basel…

Artist: Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, Mühlbracht 1558–1617 Haarlem). Date: 1589. Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: 21 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (55.5 x 40.4 cm)...

Goltzius' was the greatest engraver after Albrecht Dürer. In the 1570s he was apprenticed to the engraver Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. His first prints were published in Antwerp by Philip Galle and much of his work involved reproducing the designs of ...

What are the critical principles underpinning great art? Like all broad generalisations there will always be exceptions, but if I were to reduce all the factors that come together in the most memorable artworks then three principles are essential: projection (to arrest a viewer’s attention and to invite the viewer to look at the featured subject); visual dialogue (to express meaning by comparison of the centre of interest with another pictorial element); and, alluding to subject material…

Hendrick Goltzius | Titus Manlius, from the series The Roman Heroes | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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