Allegory of Transience (Quis Evadet?)
Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1600
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 45.3 × 32.5 cm (17 7/8 × 12 13/16 in.); sheet: 47.7 × 35.9 cm (18 13/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268735
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius · 1558–1617
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was the most celebrated engraver of the Northern Renaissance and a pivotal figure in Dutch Mannerism. Born near the German-Dutch border, Goltzius transformed printmaking into a virtuoso art form through his revolutionary 'swelling line' technique, where the burin was manipulated to create lines of varying thickness that produced unprecedented tonal effects and three-d...