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Hendrick Goltzius

Apollo, 1588

Description

Maker

  • Dancker Danckerts, 1633 - 1666, Dutch, publisher
  • Hendrick Goltzius, 1558-1617, Dutch

Title

Apollo

Year

1588

Medium

Engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 34.8 x 26.7 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Recto:in pencil in LR:B.141. fig 43/243 Verso:in pencil in LR:Le Dieu de Soleil; in UR:400In Plate--In LR:Dancker Danckertz-Exc.; In LC: H Goltzuis (H+G in monogram) fe./A°88; inscribed arou

Identification

State

2nd of 2

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Professor and Mrs. A. David Kossoff

Object Number

81.193

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
Read Online

La Peintre Graveur, 1803-1821

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

By the 1580s, Hendrick Goltzius had radically altered the engraver’s formulas for producing shape, volume, and tone. Rather than a single contour around the figure, here lines terminate to form the figure’s outline. Lozenges made from crossed swelling lines on Apollo’s body are interspersed with dots to moderate the transition from dark to light. Also evident is the s-curve, a mark used by Albrecht Dürer, but now swelled to follow the complicated volumes of clouds and activate the surface with swirling movement. Goltzius’s inventiveness as a calligrapher is also on display in the inscription around Apollo’s head, which describes the Sun God’s ability to dispel shadows and illuminate the globe.

The exaggerated musculature of the sculptural Sun God and the twisting bands of clouds around the figure were inspired by the style of Bartholomeus Spranger, court artist to Emperor Rudolf II at Prague, whose drawings were sent to Haarlem.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Apollo with the accession number of 81.193. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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