The Six Prophets of the Coming of Christ
mid-16th–early 17th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
16 3/16 x 11 5/16 in. (41.1 x 28.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1996
Accession Number
1996.302
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius|Denijs Calvaert|Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · 1558–1617
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was the most celebrated engraver of the Northern Renaissance and a pivotal figure in Dutch Mannerism. Born near the German-Dutch border, Goltzius transformed printmaking into a virtuoso art form through his revolutionary 'swelling line' technique, where the burin was manipulated to create lines of varying thickness that produced unprecedented tonal effects and three-d...