Standbeeld van Hygieia
Michel Natalis
1640
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
240; 371
About this artwork
height 371 mm x width 240 mm
Art Historical Context
**Standbeeld van Hygieia** is a striking 17th-century engraving Flemish artist Michel Natalis, created in 1640. 371 mm in height and 240 mm width, this print captures a statue of Hygieia, the ancient Greek goddess of health and hygiene—daughter of Asclepi, the god of medicine. Natalis, renowned for his reproductive engravings of classical sculptures architecture, faithfully renders the figure's graceful form, evoking the timeless elegance of antiquity during Europe's Baroque era. Engraving, Natalis's favored medium, involved incising intricate lines into a copper plate with a burin, inking it...