Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617)
text written by Cornelius Schonaeus
The Circumcision, plate four from The Birth and Early Life of Christ
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Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617)
text written by Cornelius Schonaeus1594
The Circumcision, plate four from The Birth and Early Life of Christ
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617) text written by Cornelius Schonaeus →engravingprint
Date
1594
Medium
Engraving on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
464 × mm 353 mm (image); 480 × 354 mm (plate/sheet)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
This celebrated print belongs to the Life of the Virgin series. Goltzius's composition and method of using burin is deceptively close to that of Albrecht Dürer. Although Goltzius succeeded in capturing Dürer's style, he also imposed his own ideas and settings. The artist set the scene in an exact rendering of a chapel of St. Bravo's Church in Haarlem. The artist also portrayed himself standing in the arched doorway in the background, gazing out at the viewer. This is the earliest extant portrait of the artist.
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