Goltzius, Hendrik (engraver (printmaker)). The Farnese Hercules From same collection. The Farnese Hercules is an ancient sculpture named after the place where the statue was installed as a collection piece in modern times, the Farnese Collection. Provenance Research Search Our Collections Previous Piece Next Piece Click to enlarge image Back to collection Hendrik Goltzius Dutch, 1558-1617 The Farnese Hercules, ca. Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. Title: Farnese Hercules; Creator: Hendrick Goltzius; Date Created: ca. Color code: #DDD8D0 Color code: #BEB8B0 Color code: #F6F4F0 Color code: #918A84 Color code: #68615B Color code: #403C37. Signup or Login [6] Napoleon remarked to Antonio Canova that its omission from the museum he accumulated in Paris was the most important gap in the collection. Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, Mhlbracht 15581617 Haarlem). In myths about Heracles, killing the lion was his first task. The Farnese Hercules c. 1592 (published and dated 1617) Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch (active Haarlem), 1558-1617) Object Details We are always open to learning more about our collections and updating the website. It was Goltzius' poor health as well as his desire to see the treasures of Rome that inspired him to travel to Italy in 159091. The Met's collection of drawings and printsone of the most comprehensive and distinguished of its kind in the worldbegan with a gift of 670 works from Cornelius Vanderbilt, a Museum trustee, in 1880. The young Rubens made quick sketches of the planes and massing of the statue of Hercules. The sharply defined quality of line engraving is produced with a tool called a burin, which consists of a steel rod with a sharpened point and bevelled edge. This engraving of the giant Hercules Farnese (presently in the Naples Museum) is based on a statue Goltzius saw in Italy. The first was a copy of the Farnese Hercules, nearly the monumental size of the original. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73266/the-farnese-hercules-engraving-goltzius-hendrik/, Image size and position, example 1/4 page, full screen, front cover, inside, Digital rights - format details and license period, Non-commercial research and private study, Non-commercial publishing (up to A5-size, and in print runs of up to 4000 copies), Non-commercial online use, up to 768 pixels, and for up to 5 years, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London. [2] This original survived for over 1500 years until it was melted down by Crusaders in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople. Farnese Hercules Hendrick Goltzius circa 1592 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, Netherlands Hendrick Goltzius reached his peak as a printmaker in the mid-1590s. Past, Upcoming Students Donating Artwork Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}405112N 141502E / 40.8534N 14.2505E / 40.8534; 14.2505. Ancient copies of the statue include: After rediscovery of the Farnese Hercules, copies appeared in sixteenth and eighteenth-century gardens throughout Europe. Alessandro Farnese was well placed to form one of the greatest collections of classical sculpture that had been assembled since antiquity. Special Event Rental, All He made a long-awaited journey to Italy in that year and such was his fame that he was said to have traveled incognito, covering his recognizable burned hand. Cornell University He has just performed one of the last of The Twelve Labours, which is suggested by the apples of the Hesperides he holds behind his back. Free events for everyone, plus special programs for students, families, and more! (42.1 x 30.4 cm) Type: Print; . All rights reserved. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. x 11 15/16 in .) Goltzius had a masterful command of the burin. 10, 11 hours ago - 70 works Past. Born in Germany near the border of the Netherlands, Goltzius was burned in a fire as a child, an accident that permanently damaged his right hand. Read our cookie policy. Een groot beeld van Hercules, op de rug gezien, leunend op zijn knots. #Engaged!? When Goltzius drew the statue, the legs he saw were substitutions that had been made by Guglielmo della Porta in 1560although the ancient legs had been found soon after the rest of the statue, Michelangelo convinced the Farnese that the modern ones were just as good.The two figures looking up at the massive statue in the lower right corner of the engraving have never been satisfactorily identified. The Farnese Hercules, ca 1592. It depicts a muscular, yet weary, Hercules leaning on his club, which has the skin of the Nemean lion draped over it. In 1600, at the age of forty-two, Goltzius gave up printmaking and began to paint. 1592, dated 1617 Medium: Engraving Dimensions: sheet: 16 9/16 x 11 15/16 in. Hendrick Goltzius (15581617), engraver, print publisher, draftsman, and painter, was one of the outstanding figures in Dutch art during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A collection of early modern and modern prints that demonstrates the range of techniques and print media, All Rights Reserved 114 Central Avenue Orenstein, Nadine. Leaning on his gnarled club, which is draped in the skin of the Nemean lion, he holds the golden apples stolen from the Hesperides, hiding them behind his back, in his right hand. It forms a series with two other engravings of the Apollo Belvedere and the Emperor Commodus as Hercules. 492 A cookie is a small text file which will be saved on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exhibition catalogue. For more information, call (607) 2556464 or send an e-mail to museum@cornell.edu, Visit our Facebook page According to a letter of Guglielmo della Porta, the head had been recovered separately, from a well in Trastevere, and was bought for Farnese through the agency of della Porta, whose legs made to complete the figure were so well-regarded that when the original legs were recovered from ongoing excavations in the Baths of Caracalla, della Porta's were retained, on Michelangelo's advice, in part to demonstrate that modern sculptors could bear direct comparison with the ancients. Statuette of 2nd century AD, in Detroit Institute of Arts. (41 x 30 cm) Gift of Paul Ehrenfest, Class of 1932, and Elizabeth K. Ehrenfest 77.028.007 See Also Past, Students North America The Museum Painting was viewed by him and others at the time as the summit of achievement in the arts and much more prestigious than engraving. Teachers Sign Up You can change your preferences or opt out of hearing from us at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails. At the Palace of Versailles is a copy by Jean Cornu (168486). Wealthy collectors were able to afford any one of numerous bronze replicas, created in various sizes for table-top display. Among the ancient sculptures that Goltzius studied in Rome was the Farnese Hercules, which Goltzius treated unorthodoxly from the rear to give full play to his mastery of swelling engraved lines to define and enhance the titanic back. As the line winds around the forms, expanding and contracting, it gives great sculptural force to the curves and bulges of the hero's body. South America. The monumental sculpture was unearthed in Rome in the 1540s, and quickly became one of the most famous and influential of all ancient sculptures. In the picture he has included the portrait of two (presumably) travelling companions who are looping up at the statue of Hercules in awe. Staff, Publications 20002023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Farnese Hercules, Artist: Ambitious throughout his career, as a publisher he intended from the beginning to produce engravings of high artistic and technical quality for an international public of connoisseurs and art lovers and to break the monopoly on print publishing that had been held since the mid-sixteenth century by print producers in Antwerp. (42.1 x 30.4 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917 Accession Number: 17.37.59 Read our full, Please indicate that you accept all terms to proceed, Alternatively search more than 1.25 million objects from the. More information? Contact us here. Supposedly, the famed Dutch printmaker traveled incognito in order to avoid social obligations that might distract from his real purpose, which was sketching and studying antique sculptures. Hendrick Goltzius reached his peak as a printmaker in the mid-1590s. Already have an account? Hendrick Goltzius, active in Haarlem, was reckoned to be among the foremost copper engravers in the Netherlands when he embarked on a journey to Italy in 159091 that led him to Rome at the end of 1590. As the line winds around the forms, expanding and contracting, it gives great sculptural force to the curves and bulges of the hero's body. Hendrick Goltzius (15581617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings. Initiatives, Membership Many engravings and woodcuts spread the fame of the Farnese's Hercules. Farnese Hercules (1592) by Hendrick Goltzius. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," May 6July 28, 1996. Headless statue at Izmit Archaeology and Ethnography Museum. Farnesian Hercules Hendrick Goltzius c. 1592 Kunsthalle Bremen Bremen, Germany Hendrick Goltzius, active in Haarlem, was reckoned to be among the foremost copper engravers in the Netherlands. Museum Advisory Council. The artifice of Sprangers Mannerist figure style appears for instance in Apollo (51.501.3). The enlarged copy was made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome (dedicated in 216 AD), where the statue was recovered in 1546,[3] and is now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. The sculpture bears the incised signature of Glykon, in Greek. Help the Johnson Museum continue its legacy by making a gift today. Scroll left to view more. There, he studied works of art from Antiquity, among them, the famous statue of the Farnese Hercules, which had not been unearthed until the 1540s, and is located in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, today. His superb engravings were much sought-after in the young Dutch Republic and further a. Born in Germany near the border of the Netherlands, Goltzius was burned in a fire as a child, an accident that permanently damaged his right hand. [9], The statue has inspired artists such as Jeff Koons and Matthew Darbyshire to create their own versions in plaster and polystyrene, respectively. In the next century, while the difficult craft of engraving would still be practiced by professionals as a means of reproducing the artwork of others, the most talented artists would turn to the more easily mastered technique of etching. Museum Advisory Council, Visit Goltzius (1558-1617), was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. Zwolle: Waanders, 2003. ca. Asia and Pacific Perhaps, as was suggested by the 18th-century Dutch artist and collector Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, they are a self portrait and a portrait of the artist's stepson Jacob Matham, who was also an engraver. Save the artwork in any of your exhibitions or create a new one. As part of the Met's Open Access policy, you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. In myths about Heracles, killing the lion was his first task. The Johnson Museum actively contributes to the intellectual life of our campus and community. Broken headless torso from the Amphiareion of Oropos. To license this image or for more information please contact our Licensing team. Hendrik Goltzius. Orenstein, Nadine. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee. ); Sheet: 45 33.4 cm (17 3/4 13 3/16 in.) In 159091, during his trip to Rome, Hendrik Goltzius sketched the statue in the palazzo courtyard. Receive the Museums latest news and information. Ithaca, NY 14853, Admission is free. Asia and Pacific More than once, the sculpture was crated and made ready for shipment to Paris before the Napoleonic regime fled Naples. Hercules en Deanira From related movement. Log in. Hendrick Goltzius (15581617). 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Hendrick Goltzius Title The Farnesian Hercules, plate one from Three Famous Antique Sculptures Place Netherlands (Artist's nationality) Date 1587-1597 Medium Engraving on paper Dimensions Image: 39.8 29.3 cm (15 11/16 11 9/16 in. While published . Visit our YouTube page 20002023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It shows Goltzius's bulging-muscle figure style at its most extreme. A copy of the sculpture is among the ten statues adorning the front yard of the Schlossgarten in Karlsruhe, Germany. When Goltzius drew the statue, the legs he saw were substitutions that had been made by Guglielmo della Porta in 1560although the ancient legs had been found soon after the rest of the statue, Michelangelo convinced the Farnese that the modern ones were just as good. (), 2018-2021 Regents of the University of Michigan |. One of the most important engravers and print publishers of his time, he is most widely known today for the Mannerist engravings that he and his workshop produced during the period between 1585 and 1589. Perhaps, as was suggested by the eighteenth-century Dutch artist and collector Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, they are a self-portrait and a portrait of the artist's stepson Jacob Matham, who was also an engraver.The Farnese Hercules shows to excellent advantage the virtuosic technique that Goltzius had developed, in which the swelling and tapering line pioneered by Cornelis Cort is exaggerated to the point that it becomes a focus of interest in itself. Later (in 1591) Goltzius recorded the less-common rear view, in a bravura engraving (illustration, right), which emphasizes the already exaggerated muscular form with swelling and tapering lines that flow over the contours. The Museum Karel van Mander, his biographer, described Goltzius as a rare Proteus who could assume all possible guises in his art, as he did in The Circumcision in his series The Early Life of the Virgin (17.37.36), known more familiarly as his Meisterstiche. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Use your arrow keys to navigate the tabs below, and your tab key to choose an item, Title: In Rome, he appears to have wanted to create a series of engravings of famous works of art like his Farnese Hercules (17.37.59), in particular classical statues, based on new and reliable drawings made on the spot; in this case, the Farnese Hercules (back view) in red chalk, and the Farnese Hercules (back view) in black and white chalk (both in the collection of the Teylers Museum, Haarlem). A significant factor in his decision must have been the theoretical tenets espoused by Van Mander. The ancient Roman statue known as the Farnese Hercules had been discovered in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1546, and installed in a courtyard of the Farnese family's palace on the banks of the Tiber, where it was one of the highlights of the Roman tour for visiting scholars, connoisseurs, and artists. During construction of the Alameda de Hercules (1574) in Seville, the oldest public garden preserved in Europe, at its entrance were installed two columns from a Roman temple, elements of a building still preserved in the Mrmoles, an unquestionable sign of admiration for the Roman archaeological sites. The prominently sited statue was well liked by the Ancient Romans, and copies have been found in Roman palaces and gymnasiums: another, coarser copy stood in the courtyard of Palazzo Farnese; one with the feigned (but probably ancient) inscription "Lykippos" has stood in the court of Palazzo Pitti, Florence, since the sixteenth century. Onder de voorstelling zes regels Latijn. The engraving by Goltzius, unusual for its viewpoint and its inclusion of observers, was one of a long series that had spread the fame of the statue, including one by Jacob Bos (41.72[2.63]) that provides the more common front view of the Hercules. Central Europe (including Germany), 14001600 A.D. Hendrick Goltzius reached his peak as a printmaker in the mid-1590s. The statue was a gift from its sculptor, Jason Seley, a professor of fine arts. Colossal statue of Hercules, uncovered at the baths in Hippo Regius (Annaba), Algeria. He also created extraordinary colored chalk portraits of contemporary artists such as Pietro Francavilla (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). Oops. Tot 1787 stond dit beeld in het Palazzo Farnese, vandaar de benaming Hercules Farnese. close. Check here for current hours and more. 1592 Engraving 16 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. 3, 6 hours ago - 3,359 works The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars. Goltzius designs in this period were influenced by Bartholomeus Spranger, court painter to Rudolf II. Wong & Yeun! Please take a moment to fill your information and confirm your subscription. sheet: 16 9/16 x 11 15/16 in. Goltzius studied these statues and evidently prepared the engravings during a visit to Italy in 1590/91. Remembering Acting Great, John Gielgud on His 119th Birthday. Visit our Instagram page, University Privacy This artwork is meant to be viewed from right to left. Admission to the the museum is always free. F and inscribed in ancient Greek bronze 34.5cm., 13in. The statue was purchased soon after its discovery by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and displayed in the family's residence in Rome, the Farnese Palace, until the late eighteenth century. Kids Visit Twitter page Hendrick Goltzius (15581617). In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Farnese Hercules circa 1591-1592 16th century 42.2 cm x 30.4 cm (16 5/8 in. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Hendrick Goltzius, The Farnese Hercules, c. 1592-1617, engraving on laid paper, 42.4 x 30.8 cm; plate: 41.6 x 30 cm, National Gallery of Canada. [8] At Wilhelmshhe, near Kassel, a colossal version 8.5 m high produced by Johann Jacob Anthoni, 17131717, has become a symbol for the city. sheet: 16 9/16 x 11 15/16 in. Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more, Link - Hercules Farnese in Napels - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen - http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/disclaimer/. (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/343588). ca. Lost your password? Goltziuss particular fascination for this Antique work of art finds expression in the unusually low vantage point and in the admiring gazes of the two viewers, these most likely being the artist himself and his son-in-law Jacob Matham. Forgot your password? Hercules Farnese, Hendrick Goltzius, 1617, engraving, h 419mm w 303mm Sign Up Faculty and Instructors Log In The sculpture was admired from the start, reservations about its exaggerated musculature only surfacing in the later eighteenth century. St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape, The Circumcision (Life of the Virgin Series), Landscape with Trees and Distant View of a City, Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art, W17, Gross - MOVESCI 230 -Musculoskeletal Anatomy, Northern Renaissance and Reformation-Era Art, PAST: Works selected for the course AAS 208 / HISTART 208Introduction to African Art: 100 African Objects. He used it with varying pressure to create lines that swell and taper, and which communicate form and energy. Broken headless torso of 2nd or 3rd century AD, in Museum of Saint-Raymond in Toulouse. To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: Do you have a remark or extra information on this object?