Saint John the Baptist
Hendrick Goltzius
1595/1600
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut in brown and black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Block: 24 × 14.4 cm (9 1/2 × 5 11/16 in.); sheet: 25.7 × 15.7 cm (10 1/8 × 6 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
271353
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...