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Goltzius brought to an unprecedented level the use of the "swelling line", where the burin is manipulated to make lines thicker or thinner to create a tonal effect from a distance. He also was a pioneer of the "dot and lozenge" technique, where dots are placed in the middle of lozenge-shaped spaces
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At the age of 21, Goltzius married a widow eight or nine years his senior. Her money enabled him to establish an independent business at Haarlem, but the marriage itself was unhappy. Feeling that the unpleasant atmosphere at home had affected his health, he found it advisable in 1590 to make a tour
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His portraits, though mostly miniatures, are masterpieces of their kind, both on account of their exquisite finish and as fine studies of individual characters. Of his larger heads, his life-size self-portrait is probably the most striking example.
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Goltzius had a malformed right hand from a fire when he was a baby (his drawing of it is at right), which turned out to be especially well-suited to holding the
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when he was 3 years old. After studying painting on glass for some years under his father, he learned engraving from the Dutch polymath
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Hollstein credits 388 prints to him, with a further 574 by other printmakers after his designs.
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Diua Dei genitrix, et cura fielelis Iosepf. Omnia pa fcentem pa feunt hatea fibus efcis.
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Mayor (1971), no. 418. Other writers take his friend and biographer
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Print reflecting an allegoric representation of work and diligence.
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This article is about the painter and engraver. For more uses, see
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Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel Van Mander's Schilder-Boeck
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German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter (1558–1617)
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A Foxglove in Bloom, 1592, pen and brown ink on laid paper.
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created by cross-hatching to further refine tonal shading.
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Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Dutch Republic
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Blanton Museum of Art: The University of Texas at Austin
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Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures
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In his command of the burin, Goltzius is said to rival
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Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In 1577 he moved with Coornhert to 233: 224: 7: 1002:University of Michigan Museum of Art 470:University of Michigan Museum of Art 1298:"Goltzius engravings: Metamorfosis" 200:Use of the burin tool for engraving 1127:Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 590:Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus 507:Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 56:it lacks sufficient corresponding 25: 1310:"Goltzius engravings: Apóstoles" 1152: 1102:Los Angeles County Museum of Art 714: 702: 687: 668: 649: 624: 602: 580: 558: 538: 519: 502:Los Angeles County Museum of Art 430:. He died, aged 58, in Haarlem. 302:(1616) in the collection of the 41: 1361:People from the Duchy of Cleves 1023:"Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617)" 916:"Collection: Hendrick Goltzius" 479:The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1: 1386:17th-century German engravers 921:Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 618:Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 570: 447:Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 344:Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert 118: 1286:"Works on Hendrick Goltzius" 235:[ˈɦɛndrɪkˈxɔltsijʏs] 226:[ˈhɛndʁɪkˈɡɔltsi̯ʊs] 1227:Liedtke, Walter A. (1984). 254:. He was the leading Dutch 163:1 January 1617 (aged 58–59) 1402: 1052:Philadelphia Museum of Art 1027:Metropolitan Museum of Art 835:Melion, Walter S. (1991). 596:Philadelphia Museum of Art 488:Philadelphia Museum of Art 330:, now in the municipality 29: 1346:Dutch Golden Age painters 851:– via Google Books. 614:Jan Govertsen van der Aer 110: 32:Goltzius (disambiguation) 1356:Dutch Mannerist painters 1183:Mayor, A. Hyatt (1971). 809:Ghent University Library 418:. 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Goltzius
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Bracht
Duchy of Jülich
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Printmaker
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Use of the burin tool for engraving
Northern Mannerism
[ˈhɛndʁɪkˈɡɔltsi̯ʊs]
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printmaker
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painter
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