Printing Plate with Venus, Bacchus, Ceres and Amor
dated 1595 , Artist: Hendrick Goltzius
Printing Plate with Venus, Bacchus, Ceres and Amor
Beginning in the sixteenth century, drawings and copperplate engravings were collected as artworks in their own right. Rudolf II also had numerous copper printing plates, including some by Albrecht Dürer. What is unusual about the present plate is its execution in silver and also the decoration of the ivory tableau, which is in keeping with that of a graphic reproduction. The Tableau probably entered the Prague Kunstkammer as a gift of the Duke of Bavaria.
Object data
Object Name
Printing Plate
Culture
Dutch
Dated
dated 1595
Artist
Hendrick Goltzius (1558 Bracht am Niederrhein - 1617 Haarlem) - GND
Material
Silver
Dimensions
16,6 cm
25,3 cm × 25,2 cm × 3,7 cm
Signed
HG
Inscribed
"Cum Bacchi , et Cereris magnum mihi numine numen, Anno * 1595. Hi mihi languenti renovant in pectore vires. * "
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer
Inv. No.
Kunstkammer, 924
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