Van Mander's Protean Artist: Hendrick Goltzius, Mythic Masculinity and Embodiment.
Karel van Mander's biography of his friend Hendrick Goltzius in the "Schilder‐boeck" provides crucial information about the artist up to 1604, but it also mythologizes him with its construction of heroic artistic masculinity. The gendered tropes of milk, fire, and blood are drawn from Goltzius's lif...
| Publicado en: | Art History Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 372 - 403 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2021
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