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John, plate 4, from Christ, The Twelve Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed, after Karel van Mander
John, plate 4, from Christ, The Twelve Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed, after Karel van Mander

John, plate 4, from Christ, The Twelve Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed, after Karel van Mander

Primary (Antwerp, Belgium, 1565–London, England, 1629)
NationalityDutch, Europe
Date1591-1592
MediumEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 11 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (28.3 × 19 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, purchase from the Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1998.405.4
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1998.405.4/14
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Label Text
Karel van Mander was a significant Mannerist painter, an important man of letters, and the Netherlands’ first historian of art. In 1583 he and Hendrik Goltzius created an artistic academy in Haarlem. The most distinguished of its many students, and Goltzius’s greatest follower, was Jacob de Gheyn II. A very rare masterpiece of his maturity, this series reproduces drawings by Van Mander in a style surpassing Goltzius’s in responsiveness of line and fluidness of description.
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