Apollo
1588
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 35.3 × 27.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-207081
In the Netherlands, Hendrick Goltzius radically altered the engraver’s formulas for producing shape, volume, and tone. Building on Cornelis Cort’s and Agostino Carracci’s formulas, he used swelled, crossed lines that end at the figure’s outline. He interspersed the diamond shapes on Apollo’s body with dots to convey the transition from dark to light—effective for portraying the Sun God’s exaggerated musculature, a hallmark of Goltzius’s work. The S curve, a mark used by Albrecht Dürer, is now swelled to follow the complicated, swirling volume of clouds.
Provenance
Prasse Collection, 1969.48
Registry history
- 1588 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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