Saturday, September 24, 2016

People and Gods by Hendrik Goltzius

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