Thursday, November 16, 2017

Mannerism and Classicism from Hendrik Goltzius

Hendrik Goltzius
Pyramus and Thisbe
1580
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Alas what chaunce my Pyramus hath parted thee and mee?
Make aunswere O my Pyramus: It is thy Thisbe, even shee
Whome thou doste love most heartely that speaketh unto thee.
Give eare and rayse thy heavie heade.  He hearing Thisbes name,
Lift up his dying eyes, and having scene hir closde the same.
But when she knew her mantle there and saw his scabberd lie
Without the swoorde: Unhappy man thy love hath made thee die:
Thy love (she said) hath made thee slea thy selfe.  This hand of mine
Is strong enough to do the like.  My love no lesse then thine
Shall give me force to worke my wound.   I will pursue thee dead.
And wretched woman as I am, it shall of me be sed
That like as of thy death I was the only cause and blame,
So am I thy companion eke and partner in the same.
For death which only coulde alas a sunder part us twaine,
Shall never so dissever us but we will meete againe.
And you the Parentes of us both, most wretched folke alyve,
Let this request that I shall make in both our names bylive,
Entreate you to permit that we whome chaste and stedfast love
And whome even death hath joynde in one, may as it doth behove
In one grave be together layd.  And thou unhappie tree
Which shroudest now the corse of one, and shalt anon through mee
Shroude two, of this same slaughter holde the sicker signes for ay.
Blacke be the colour of thy fruite and mourninglike alway,
Such as the murder of us twaine may evermore bewray.
This said, she tooke the sword yet warme with slaughter of hir love
And setting it beneath hir brest, did too her heart it shove.
Hir prayer with the Gods and with their Parentes tooke effect.
For when the frute is throughly ripe, the Berrie is bespect
With colour tending to a blacke.  And that which after fire
Remained, rested in one Tumbe as Thisbe did desire.

 from book 4 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding (1567)

Hendrik Goltzius
Penitent Magdalene
1585
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius
Mars and Venus
1588
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius
Portrait of a man holding flowers
1582
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius
Standard Bearer
ca. 1582
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Monochrome Frieze of Erotes offering sacrifice (copied in Rome)
ca. 1590-91
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Monochrome Frieze of Erotes offering sacrifice (copied in Rome)
ca. 1590-91
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Monochrome Frieze of Erotes offering sacrifice (copied in Rome)
ca. 1590-91
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Monochrome Frieze of Erotes in Procession (copied in Rome)
ca. 1590-91
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Bacchus in niche (copied in Rome)
1592
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius after Raphael
Prophet Hosea (copied in Rome)
1592
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius after Raphael
Triumph of Galatea (copied in Rome)
1592
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius
Seated Woman and Two Soldiers
ca. 1595-96
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Hendrik Goltzius
Bust of a woman
1610
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem