"Venus afvæbner Amor" i en medaillon omgivet af planter, frugter, insekter og skaldyr
Joris Hoefnagel
1593-1597
Medium
Akvarel og gouache
Classification
Akvarel
Department
Den Kongelige Kobberstiksamling
Museum
SMK — National Gallery of Denmark
Credit
SMK — Statens Museum for Kunst
Accession Number
KKS2008-13
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
AkvarelTegning
About the Artist
Joris Hoefnagel · 1542–1600
Joris Hoefnagel, also known as Georg Hoefnagel, was born in 1542 in Antwerp to Jacob Hoefnagel, a prosperous diamond and luxury goods dealer, and Elisabeth Vezelaer, daughter of the Antwerp mint master. Intended for the family trade, he received a humanistic education, mastering languages, poetry, and music, but pursued art as a self-taught draftsman and miniaturist, receiving his first lessons fr...