Hendrick GoltziusDutch, 1558–1617Bacchus met een drinkschaal
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Bacchus met een drinkschaal” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Cartouches with auricular motifs were used quite often in engravings, but here Bacchus holds a drinking bowl, a three-dimensional object entirely made up of kwab forms. That was original and daring: in reality such objects were almost certainly not yet made by 1596.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-1937-821
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
In the life of Hendrick Goltzius
The whole lifeJanuary 1591
Eight months in Rome
He arrived in Rome in January 1591 and stayed eight months (with a brief sojourn in Naples). He discovered Raphael, was especially impressed by Michelangelo and Giambologna, and studied art from classical sculpture to the masters of the Renaissance.
August 1591
Return to Haarlem with a collection of drawings
He returned to Haarlem, bringing from Italy a large collection of drawings that he used for the rest of his life; from the Roman material three engravings of classical statues are known, including the Farnese Hercules.
mid-1590s
Turn toward classicism
In the mid-1590s his art underwent a gradual stylistic turn toward classicism; at the same time he began executing large finished pen drawings on parchment in a calligraphic technique imitating the methods of burin engraving.
