The Fall of Phaeton, from Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 6 15/16 x 9 15/16 in. (17.7 x 25.2 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 3/16 in. (18.1 x 25.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.662
Tags
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius|Anonymous, Netherlandish, 17th century · 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...