Friday, September 23, 2016

Chiaroscuro Woodcuts by Hendrik Goltzius

Hendrik Goltzius
Standing youth with stick
ca. 1598
chiaroscuro wwoodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Pluto
ca. 1588-90
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Nature 
again may cover up the earth and circling sea
and all the spangles of the painted sky.
No longer will the Sun, leader of stars, 
raise his eternal torch and usher in
the seasons, pointing out the proper times
for summer and winter. The Moon, whose light reflects
the flames of Phoebus, will no longer take
terror from night, beating her brother's horses
as she runs her shorter race. 
The mass of gods
will be heaped away into a single chasm. 

– from the tragedy Thyestes by Seneca (ca. 4 BC-AD 65) in a new English translation by Emily Wilson (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Hendrik Goltzius
Arcadian Landscape
ca. 1597-98
chiaroscuro wwoodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Tethys
ca. 1588-90
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Cliff on Seashore
ca. 1597-1600
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Oceanus
ca. 1588-90
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Shepherd and Shepherdess
ca. 1597-98
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Nox
ca. 1588-90
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Landscape with Farmhouse
ca. 1597-1600
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Aether
ca. 1588-90
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Landscape with Waterfall
ca. 1597-1600
chiaroscuro wwoodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Demogorgon in the Cave of Eternity
ca. 1588-90
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

attributed to Hendrik Goltzius
Young Saint John the Baptist
16th century
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Large Marine
16th century
chiaroscuro woodcut
Princeton University Art Museum

I am grateful for the excellent images made available by Princeton University Art Museum.