Landscape with a Farmhouse
Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1600
Medium
Woodcut in black printed on blue paper
Dimensions
Woodblock: 11.2 × 14.5 cm (4 7/16 × 5 3/4 in.); sheet: 14 × 17.2 cm (5 9/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
267854
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...