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About this artwork

hoogte 161 mm x breedte 232 mm

Art Historical Context

Maarten van Heemskerck’s 1560 pen drawing offers a glimpse into the working methods of one of the leading Netherlandish artists of the Northern Renaissance. Active during a period of intense cultural exchange between northern Europe and Italy, van Heemskerck traveled to Rome in the 1530s, where he produced hundreds of studies after antique sculpture and architecture. This small sheet, measuring just 161 by 232 millimeters, likely served as a preparatory study or modello for an engraving, a common practice for the artist who frequently supplied designs to printmakers. Executed in pen, the draw...