Hendrick GoltziusDutch, 1558–1617Horatius Cocles (2)
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Slovak National Gallery
Bratislava, Slovakia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
In the catalog
Sources
- Slovak National Gallery
- Image: Slovak National Gallery — Public Domain Mark 1.0
Meanwhile, in the life of Hendrick Goltzius
The whole life1579–1587
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.
