Minerva, Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Title(s)

Minerva
Drie godinnen in de wolken (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

1/3

Object number

RP-P-H-M-19

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 63
  Remark: Saenredam
• Hollstein Dutch 139
  Remark: Goltzius
• New Hollstein Dutch 141
  Remark: Goltzius

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 11
• collector's mark: Lugt 10
• number: ‘1’

Description

Minerva zittend in haar wapenrusting op een wolk. Op de achtergrond rijdt de godin in een door paarden voortgetrokken wagen, onder de wolk verkeert Pallas in het gezelschap van de negen muzen en Pegasus.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Jan Saenredam (rejected attribution)
• after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius
• Cornelius Schonaeus (mentioned on object)
• Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• Joannes Baruitio (mentioned on object)
• Rudolf II van Habsburg (Duits keizer) (mentioned on object)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

1596

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 240 mm × width 254 mm

What

• (story of) Pallas
• the Muses acting together (as group)
• Pegasus, the winged horse

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesberg, Huigen Leeflang, dl. I, p. 222, cat.nr. 141
• Jan Saenredam to Roelandt Savery, p. 48, cat.nr. 63
• Goltzius - Heemskerck, p. 31, cat.nr. 139