De kindermoord te Bethlehem
Über das Werk
In den Worten des Museums — auf Niederländisch
Onvoltooide voorstelling van vrouwen die hun kinderen proberen te beschermen tegen het geweld van mannen met dolken, die in opdracht van Herodes (staand, rechts) alle jongetjes te Bethlehem doden.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
- RP-P-OB-10.370
Derweil im Leben von Hendrick Goltzius
Das ganze Leben1579–1587
Pupil: Jan Saenredam
late 1580s
Depression and consumption
From the late 1580s he suffered from depression and consumption; his family life was unhappy.
c. 1584
Meeting Karel van Mander
He met the painter and his future biographer Karel van Mander, a refugee from Flanders, who introduced him to the drawings of Bartholomeus Spranger, then working in Prague for Rudolf II. Spranger's works exerted a significant influence on Goltzius's art.
1585–1587
Pupil: Jacob de Gheyn II
1587
Founding of the Haarlem Academy
Together with Cornelis van Haarlem and Karel van Mander he founded an academy of art in Haarlem, later known as the Haarlem Mannerist Academy (some sources give 1583 or 1600). There, for the first time in the Netherlands, systematic study of anatomy and drawing from the nude model were introduced.
