St. Andrew, from Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed
ca. 1589
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. (15 x 10.4 cm) sheet: 7 13/16 x 6 in. (19.9 x 15.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.471.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *St. Andrew, from Christ, the Apostles and. Paul with the Creed a masterful engraving by Hendrick Goltus, created around 1589. This intimate portrait captures the apostle St. Andrew, one of Christ's original twelve disciples and patron saint of Scotland and fishermen, as part of a larger series that pairs religious figures with lines from the Apostles' Creed Goltzius, a leading Dutch engraver from Haarlem, produced this during the late Northern Renaissance, a time when printmaking revolutionized the spread of devotional imagery amid religious upheaval in the Reformation era. Measuring ...
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...