Modern Grotesque with Strapwork
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/16 x 8 1/8 in. (30.6 x 20.7 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.57.61(8)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 16th Northern Renaissance ornamentation with *Modern Grotesque with Strapwork* (1554), a masterful etching by a stellar collaboration: engravers Johannes and Lucas van Doetec, designer Cornelis Floris II and publisher Hieronymus. Measuring 12 1/16 x 8 1/8 inches, this print from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints department exemplifies the era's fascination with *grotesques*—astical motifs blending flora, fauna, and mythical figures, inspired by ancient Roman discoveries in Nero's Domus Aurea. Etching allowed the van Doetecum brothers to render...
About the Artist
Johannes van Doetecum I|Lucas van Doetecum|Cornelis Floris II|Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish|Netherlandish) · 1528 |1527 –1605 |1606
Netherlandish, 1528/32–1605|Netherlandish, Leeuwarden 1527–1606 (?) Antwerp (?)