Landscape with a Farmhouse, from Four Small Landscapes
Hendrick Goltzius
1597/1600
Medium
Woodcut in black on blue laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.3 × 14.4 cm (4 1/2 × 5 11/16 in.); Plate/sheet: 12.3 × 15.5 cm (4 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84425
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...