Hercules Killing Cacus
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in black, yellow and olive-green, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate/sheet trimmed to platemark: 41 × 33.2 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
6135
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...