Bust of a Warrior
Hendrick Goltzius
1586/88
Medium
Black chalk, with red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, ruled with pen and black ink, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
14 × 9.8 cm (5 9/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
243885
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...