Saturday, September 24, 2016

Engravings by Hendrik Goltzius

Hendrick Goltzius
Evening
ca. 1595-9
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Say what slim youth, with moist perfumes
        Bedaub'd, now courts thy fond embrace,
There, where the frequent rose-tree blooms,
        And makes the grot so sweet a place?
Pyrrha, for whom with such an air
Do you bind back your golden hair?

So seeming in your cleanly vest,
        Whose plainness is the pink of taste 
Alas! how oft shall he protest
        Against his confidence misplac't,
And love's inconstant pow'rs deplore,
And wondrous winds, which, as they roar,

Throw black upon the alter'd scene 
         Who now so well himself deceives,
And thee all sunshine, all serene
         For want of better skill believes,
And for this pleasure has presag'd
Thee ever dear and disengag'd.

Wretched are all within thy snares,
         The inexperienc'd and the young!
For me the temple witness bears
         Where I my drooping weed have hung,
And left my votive chart behind
To him that rules both wave and wind.

 from the Fifth Ode of Horace, translated by Christopher Smart in 1767

Hendrik Goltzius
Lot and his Daughters Leaving Sodom
ca. 1582
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Pygmalion  and Galatea
1593
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Perseus and Andromeda
1597
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Mercury and Argus
ca. 1585
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Fortitude
1597
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Justice
1587
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrick Goltzius
Faith
1597
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Charity 
1597
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Temperance
1587
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Prudence
1597
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Hope
1597
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
The Three Fates
1587
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

Hendrik Goltzius
Venus and Cupid
1590
engraving
Princeton University Art Museum

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