Hendrik Goltzius Self-portrait ca. 1593-94 chalk drawing Albertina, Vienna |
"The Baroque artist had no idea that he was a Baroque artist, or, at least, he had no strong awareness of belonging to a new phase of the art and culture typical of the Renaissance artist. A feeling of continuity reached across the Mannerist parenthesis to link the Baroque artist to the great protagonists of the art of that rebirth. ... Baroque society was a body, a social organism whose every element had its own special place and function and that was itself internally structured and organized according to recognized and accepted hierarchies. The swath of disorder and confusion undeniably broadened during the Baroque age ... all in all, however, such phenomena seem to have remained under control; in no absolute sense could they be said to have dominated the general climate or overturned the principle of far-flung organization...."
– from Baroque Personae, edited by Rosario Villari and translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of the sculptor Pierre Francheville ca. 1591 chalk drawing Rijksmuseum |
Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of the sculptor Giambologna 1591 chalk drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of a Woman holding a flute late 16th-early 17th century engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of Johannes Kellenberch 1584 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert 1591 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
Hendrik Goltzius Fantasy portrait 1607 woodcut Princeton Unversity Art Museum |
Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1586 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of Josephus Justus Scaliger 1593 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
Hendrik Goltzius Venus ca. 1596 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
Hendrik Goltzius Apollo Belvedere ca. 1592 engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
Hendrik Goltzius Mercury 1611 oil on panel Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem |
Hendrik Goltzius Minerva 1611 oil on panel Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem |
Hendrik Goltzius Hercules and Cacus 1613 oil on panel Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem |