1.Previous
3.Next

of his line. His work has been described as combining technical control with an "exuberance" of composition.

According to A. Hyatt Mayor, an American curator and historian of prints, Goltzius "was the last professional engraver who drew with the authority of a good painter and the last who invented many pictures for others to copy".

His approach to engraving was shaped in part by a childhood injury. When he was still a child he fell into burning coals, an accident that left his right hand

1.Previous
3.Next