Hendrick Goltzius
Herman Adolfz
Farnese Hercules
c. 1592
prints & drawings
Around 1600 Hendrick Goltzius was the major engraver in the Nothern Netherlands. Even before his journey to Italy in 1590 his work became influenced by the Italian Renaissance and he chose motifs from stories of Greek and Roman myth and legend. This engraving of the giant Hercules Farnese (presently in the Naples Museum) is based on a statue Goltzius saw in Italy. In the picture he has included the portrait of two (presumably) travelling companions who are looping up at the statue of Hercules in awe. Goltzius is seen as a transitionals artist between the Netherlands mannerist style of the 16th century and the Netherlands realism of the 17th century.
- Hercules Farnese in Napelshttp://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/LX/HerculesFarneseNapoliMetro.html
