Hendrick GoltziusPaesi Bassi, 1558–1617Perseus en Andromeda
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Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
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- Fonte
- Il museo
Sull’opera
Con le parole del museo — in olandese
Andromeda, de dochter van een Ethiopische koning, is vastgeketend aan een rots. Op de achtergrond verslaat Perseus het zeemonster om Andromeda te kunnen komen redden. In de marge onder de prent vier regels Latijn.
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Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- RP-P-OB-10.130
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Fonti
- Rijksmuseum
- Immagine: Rijksmuseum — public domain
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Hendrick Goltzius
Tutta la vita1579–1587
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
