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Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

Apollo Belvedere

Apollo Belvedere

1592
(Dutch, 1558–1617)
Netherlands, 16th century
engraving
Platemark: 41.8 x 30.1 cm (16 7/16 x 11 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43.5 x 31.3 cm (17 1/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2022.139
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The 2nd-century Apollo Belvedere was unearthed in central Italy during the Renaissance and was on display at the Vatican Palace by the time Hendrick Goltzius visited the city.

Description

Hendrick Goltzius was one of many late Renaissance artists who felt compelled to travel to Italy as part of his artistic training. He went with one purpose—to study antique sculpture. Goltzius made drawings on-site and then made engravings after his designs once he returned to Haarlem in 1591. He portrayed the Apollo Belvedere from a low viewpoint to capture the awesome experience of first encountering the famous monument. A seated, sketching artist emphasizes the experience of visiting, seeing, and drawing the sculpture in situ. The engraving shows to excellent advantage the virtuosic technique that Goltzius developed, in which the swelling and tapering line exaggerates the heroic musculature of the figure.
  • Samuel Solomonovitsch Scheikevitch, Moscow, Russia
    Private Collection, Europe
    June 27, 1989
    (Sotheby's, London, England), Lot 29
    Private Collection, United States of America
    ?-2022
    (C.G. Boerner, LLC, New York, NY), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 5, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Goltzius, Hendrik, and Walter L. Strauss. Hendrik Goltzius, 1558-1617: The Complete Engravings and Woodcuts. New York: Abaris Books, 1977. 312-314
  • {{cite web|title=Apollo Belvedere|url=false|author=Hendrick Goltzius|year=1592|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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