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- Title
Hendrick Goltzius: Painting with Colored Chalk.
- Authors
Kettering, Alison M.
- Abstract
During the first half of the 1590s, Hendrick Goltzius created several large colored-chalk portraits of his artist friends, as well as two self-portraits. Mid-career, he traveled from Haarlem to Italy, encountering drawings and oil paintings that suggested new possibilities for employing color in portraiture. Already renowned as a graphic artist, Goltzius began to refashion himself as a master of color. I argue that these brilliant drawings provide valuable insight into his transition from linear expression to full-fledged oil painting in 1600. Equally important, they demonstrate an expansion of his technical prowess, using colored chalks (and washes) to evoke the presence and personality of sitters, especially through glowing flesh. Taken as a group, these presentation drawings gain resonance by representing a community of artists, bound by friendship and profession.
- Subjects
HAARLEM (Netherlands); CHALK; GRAPHIC artists; SELF-portraits; PORTRAIT painting; PERSONALITY
- Publication
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1949-9833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5092/jhna.2023.15.2.2