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Hendrik Goltzius, artist
Dutch, 1558 - 1617
The Holy Family with St. John the Baptist, 1593
47.5 x 35.3 cm (image)
California StateLibrary Loan L133.1966
after, Federico Barocci
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Printmaker and painter. Leading figure of the Mannerist school of Dutch engravers. For technique as an engraver Goltzius is considered unsurpassed, even by D¸rer. He began painting late in the 1590s in the Mannerist style, but his work in that medium less impressive. ~~Son of a stained-glass painter, Goltzius was taught stained-glass by his father and was later instructed in copperplate engraving by Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert in Haarlem. His marriage to a rich widow in 1579 enabled him to set up his own business in Haarlem, where he remained for the rest of his life except for a tour of Germany and Italy (1590). Early works were reproductions of prints by Albrecht D¸rer, Lucas van Leyden, and others. At times these have been mistaken for the originals. He also began designing his own compositions, among them a set illustrating the "Story of Ruth and Boaz" and another depicting the "Story of Lucretia," the ravished Roman matron. These feature intricate detail and interesting chiaroscuro effects. His series of "Roman Heroes" (1586) is executed in a broader manner, as is the series on the life of Christ he did in the 1590s, in which he imitated the manners of various Italian and Dutch Renaissance artists. Among his best-known prints are the engraving of the "Farnese Hercules" and a chiaroscuro woodcut of "Hercules Killing Cacus." His miniature portraits are distinguished both by their finish and as studies of personality and character. ~~~~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920. vol. 3~Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrik Goltzius... (Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921)~
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