Deugd en Eer

1584 - 1588 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

Source: The museum's own collection data

On the map Museum page

About the work

In the museum's own words — in Dutch

Ovale voorstelling van Deugd en Eer, in de gedaanten van een vrouw met een piramide en een man met een kroon. Om de voorstelling een randschrift in het Frans in spiegelbeeld. Deze prent heeft als pendant een ovale emblematische voorstelling. Beide zijn waarschijnlijk gedrukt van voor- en achterzijde van één medaillon.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number: RP-P-OB-10.258

What it shows

Honour, 'Honor' ~ one of the seven gifts of the soul Virtuousness Amor di Virtù', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtù', 'Virtù insuperabile' (Ripa)

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

Meanwhile, in the life of Hendrick Goltzius

The whole life

1579–1587
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.
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."