Maarten van HeemskerckDutch, 1498–1574Five Hovering Angels
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
About the work
The Strong Men series clearly reveals Heemskerck’s fascination with the very latest creations of his Italian colleagues. He must have frequently copied such contemporary examples. This is one of his few surviving drawings after such a work. He took the playful angels from a fresco in the Vatican made by Raphael’s most important pupil Giulio Romano in the 1520s.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-T-1946-84(R)
What it shows
Sources
- Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 6 days ago
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
