Maarten van Heemskerck
Netherlandish, 1498-1574
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INV-1286
Maarten van Heemskerck
Netherlandish, 1498-1574c. 1560
pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1560
Medium
Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, incised with stylus for transfer
Dimensions
19.7 × 25.2 cm (7 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Simeon B. Williams Fund
Maarten van Heemskerck, a prolific draftsman and etcher and the leading proponent of the Mannerist School in Haarlem, spent a decisive period in Rome from 1532 to 1536. This drawing shows the influence of Michelangelo's heroic forms. Pricked for transfer to a metal plate, it is one of six designs he made for an engraved series of Good Women of the Old Testament.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
Celestial Venus (recto); Main Hall, Baths of Diocletian (verso)
Circle of Maarten van Heemskerck Netherlandish, 1498-1574
Turbaned Soldier Holding a Lance
Unknown artist after Maarten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, 1498-1574)
Judith Slaying Holofernes, plate six from The Story of Judith and Holofernes
Philip Galle (Netherlandish, 1537-1612) after Maarten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498-1574)
