St. John the Evangelist
Bartholomaeus Spranger
c. 1590
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 15.3 × 20.5 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
264832
About the Artist
Bartholomaeus Spranger
Bartholomaeus Spranger was born on 21 March 1546 in Antwerp, Habsburg Netherlands, as the third son of trader Ioachim Spranger and Anna Roelandtsinne. He began his artistic training in Antwerp, apprenticing for 18 months under landscape painter Jan Mandijn, briefly with Frans Mostaert after Mandijn's death, and then spending two years studying followed by two more in the workshop of Cornelis van D...