Death of the Foolish Litigant, from Litis Abusus (The Abuses of the Law)
Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1576
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18.2 × 22.8 cm (7 3/16 × 9 in.); sheet: 27.1 × 32.8 cm (10 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268414
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...