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THE SHOCK OF THE OLD.(art exhibitions)
What is a virtuoso? The answer is provided by a disfigured hand, one of the many spellbinding images that appear in the sleeper show of the summer, the Hendrick Goltzius exhibition at the Met. Who was Goltzius? He was this hand: tendons fused, index finger permanently bent, nail bed of the middle finger caved in--a decided handicap, you would suppose, for an artist whose forte was drawing. When Hendrick was around a year old, his friend and biographer Karel van Mander tells us, he fell face forward into a fire, and clutched at the hot coals. The result was the clawlike right hand, incapable of fully unclenching its fingers, but the result was also this pen-and-ink drawing, ...
- Show of hands: Christopher P. Heuer on Hendrick Goltzius. (From the Vault...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International January 1, 2003 700+ words
...artistic identity, there was Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), a sulky...contemporary Karel van Mander, Goltzius made a career of ventriloquizing...emulations appear in the exhibition "Hendrick Goltzius: Prints, Drawings, Paintings...
- Hendrick Goltzius and Willem van Tetrode: two related exhibitions have...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Schmid, Vanessa March 1, 2004 700+ words
...less comparatively unknown. While Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) has enjoyed consistent...last spring, and last summer the Goltzius show moved to the Metropolitan...Collection, both in New York; the Goltzius then travelled to its final destination...
- A Proteus revealed: a traveling exhibition of the Mannerist artist Hendrick...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Hirsch, Faye January 1, 2004 700+ words
The landmark exhibition "Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch Master (1558-1617...both about Dutch Mannerism and Goltzius himself. (Until Jan. 4, it is...pronounced historicizing tendencies. In Goltzius, a true graphic genius, one gets...
- Hendrick Goltzius and mannerism.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman February 10, 1992 700+ words
Art is the currency of international trust; as nothing in the world is at once more rare and more vulnerable than a painting, no greater sign can be imagined through which the civility of an alien nation is acknowledged than allowing it to host the rarest and most vulnerable paintings in one's
- Dutch artist Goltzius finally gets his due.
- News wire article from: United Press International August 14, 2003 700+ words
...Hals, Ter Borch) there was Hendrick Goltzius, whose paintings, drawings and...exhibition. Some 164 works by Goltzius (1558-1617), an artist influenced...Toledo museums. In his time, Goltzius' engravings were so popular that...
- NGA Buys Goltzius for $1.5 Million
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paul Richard July 27, 1996 700+ words
...The Fall of Man" by Holland's Hendrick Goltzius, a 1616 canvas rich with contradictory...celebrated for its fidelity to nature. Goltzius, it's clear, based his cat...But his Adam has another source. Goltzius based the figure on "Tiber...
- Hendrik Goltzius in Amsterdam. (Report from Europe).(exhibition of paintings at...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam March 1, 2003 700+ words
...beginning of the seventeenth century Goltzius turned to painting. Under the...retrospective exhibition devoted to Goltzius is on view at the Rijksmuseum in...March 7 until May 25. Entitled Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints...
- Goltzius: Jupiter and Antiope
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1900 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1900 Goltzius: Jupiter and Antiope The problems...massive male legs on Antiope in Hendrik Goltzius' depiction of Jupiter's entrance...private. Jupiter. Antiope indoor Goltzius, Hendrik. Mannerist painters...
