Geboorte van Adonis In the foreground three followers of Juno, Where: One leaves collected in a basket. In the distance, in the background, Myrrha, the nymph who turned into a tree, like Adonis, assisted by Juno Lucino. A fountain-nymph receives Adonis, looking to other nymphs. (Ovid, Metamorphoses X, 503-514) . Manufacturer : draftsman: Hendrick Goltzius Date: 1605 Physical characteristics: pen in brown, white paint, on gray prepared paper material: prepared paper coating ink Technique: pen Dimensions: h 456 mm × W 606 mmToelichtingDe drawing belonged to that great bravura drawings Goltzius
Geboorte van Adonis In the foreground three followers of Juno, Where: One leaves collected in a basket. In the distance, in the background, Myrrha, the nymph who turned into a tree, like Adonis, assisted by Juno Lucino. A fountain-nymph receives Adonis, looking to other nymphs. (Ovid, Metamorphoses X, 503-514) . Manufacturer : draftsman: Hendrick Goltzius Date: 1605 Physical characteristics: pen in brown, white paint, on gray prepared paper material: prepared paper coating ink Technique: pen Dimensions: h 456 mm × W 606 mmToelichtingDe drawing belonged to that great bravura drawings Goltzius began making in 1600 and to which he refers in his letter degree in 1605 from the goldsmith Hans Weely in Amsterdam. Reznicek notes that this scene is rare in the Methamorphoses in Dutch art. The inventory of 1655 the Duke of Arundel, a Nascita d'Adonis chiaro scuro the Mostard "included .. Reznicek calls attention to a study in the nymph chalk law is in the foreground, in Coburg and a study of a tree in the FF Madan Collection in London that was used for the large tree on the right. The dating is probably later picked; the latter figure, which certainly does not correspond to the 16th century figure 3, will potentially have been a fifth. It is possible that these large drawing was intended for his friend, Hans van Weely. It is possible that there Goltzius worked on in May 1605, as he stated in his letter dated on that date, stored in the National Ethnology Kabinet. Subject: birth of Adonis: the tree splits open to release the baby; the Naiads take care of him
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