The Bearing of the Cross, Hendrick Goltzius

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Hendrick Goltzius, The Bearing of the Cross
Hendrick Goltzius, The Bearing of the Cross
Hendrick Goltzius
The Bearing of the Cross
after 1598
Hendrick Goltzius
1558–1617
The Bearing of the Cross, after 1598
Where object was made: Netherlands
Material/technique: engraving
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 196 x 128 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 201 x 132 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 11/16 x 5 1/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 7 15/16 x 5 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 1994.0045.09
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Giorgio Vasari and Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy," Sep-2012, Sally Cornelison and Susan Earle The drama, grief, brutality, and suffering that characterize many of the Passion images in this exhibition remained current into the late 16th and 17th centuries as these engravings evince. They are close copies after prints in the Passion series of 1598 that the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius engraved and dedicated to Italian Cardinal Federico Borromeo. In 1590 Goltzius traveled to Italy, where he visited Rome, Naples, Venice, and Florence. Rather than reflecting his Italian experiences with classical sculpture and Renaissance paintings, however, Goltzius’s Christ Carrying the Cross exhibits many of the same Northern European pictorial conventions that inspired Raphael and Vasari. His Crucifixion, on the other hand, is iconographically more expansive than Dürer’s representations of the same scene in the Engraved and Small Passions. In addition to depicting Christ being crucified between the penitent and unrepentant thieves, in the print’s foreground Roman soldiers can be seen casting lots for Christ’s garments.

Exhibitions

Giorgio Vasari and Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy
Sally Cornelison, curator
Susan Earle, curator
2012

Citations

Cornelison, Sally J.. "Giorgio Vasari and Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy: Themes and Further Observations.." In Register Vol. VIII, no. 3 Part 1 (2011): 92-117.

Earle, Susan et al., The Register, VIII, No. 3, Part 2 (Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2011): 208.