De goddelijke leer, Hendrick Goltzius, 1584 - 1588
Hendrick Goltzius, portraitHendrick GoltziusDutch, 1558–1617

De goddelijke leer

1584 - 1588 · Print

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Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

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Museum text in Dutch

Ovale emblematische voorstelling: twee trompetachtige blaasinstrumenten, een gevleugeld boek en een hart. Om de voorstelling een randschrift in het Frans in spiegelbeeld. Deze prent heeft als pendant een ovale voorstelling van Deugd en Eer. Beide zijn waarschijnlijk gedrukt van voor- en achterzijde van één medaillon.

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RP-P-OB-10.259

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In the life of Hendrick Goltzius

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  1. 1579–1587

    Pupil: Jan Saenredam

  2. late 1580s

    Depression and consumption

    From the late 1580s he suffered from depression and consumption; his family life was unhappy.

  3. 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.

  4. 1585–1587

    Pupil: Jacob de Gheyn II

  5. 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.

  6. 1590

    Departure for Italy

    He fled from his wife and, despite his illnesses, set out for Italy — via Hamburg and Munich to Venice, Bologna and Florence. Part of the way he traveled on foot, passing himself off as a commoner, "partly out of a love of mystification."

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