The Great Hercules or 'Knollenman'
1589
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- 56.3 × 40.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-539055
The exaggerated and unnatural musculature of this figure may suggest that the Netherlandish artist Hendrick Goltzius had never studied a real human body. Indeed, he pulled from a mixture of sources including classical sculpture, Italian art, and his imagination. Goltzius ushered in Mannerism in Northern Europe, a style that featured exaggerated forms and metaphorical and allegorical subject matter. Known for his skill with an engraving burin, he transformed the technique, creating engraved lines that taper and swell to emphasize volume and form to extreme effect.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1995.38
Registry history
- 1589 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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