St. Simon, from Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed
Hendrick Goltzius
ca. 1589
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. (15 x 10.5 cm) sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (20.9 x 15.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.471.11
Tags
BooksReadingApostlesSaints
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...