Dissension in the Church (Dissidium in Ecclesia)
Hendrick Goltzius|Philips Galle
ca. 1578
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 5/16 in. (25.7 x 18.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.14(63)
Tags
MenChurches
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius|Philips Galle · 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...