Portret van Pierre Francheville (Francavilla)
Hendrick Goltzius
1590 - 1591
Medium
paper
Dimensions
415; 308
About this artwork
De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
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...