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The Last Judgment by Hubert Goltzius Limburgs Museum G11444

Hubert Goltz or Goltzius (30 October 1526 – 24 March 1583) was a Renaissance painter, engraver, and printer from the Southern Netherlands. He is not to be confused with the much more famous

Hendrik Goltzius Hendrick Goltzius, or Hendrik, (; ; January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, lauded for his s ...

, who was his cousin, once removed.

Life

The early Flemish biographer

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembere ...

states in his ''

Schilder-boeck or is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into En ...

'' (1604) that Goltzius was born in

Venlo Venlo () is a city and municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, close to the border with Germany. It is situated in the province of Limburg, about 50 km east of the city of Eindhoven, 65 km north east of the provincial capital Maastricht, a ...

from parents who were originally from Wurzburg.Hubert Goltz
in: Karel van Mander, ''Het Schilder-boeck'', 1604 He was a pupil of

Lambert Lombard Lambert Lombard (c. 1505 – August 1566) was a Renaissance painter, architect and theorist for the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. During his career he worked for Jan Gossaert in Middelburg and trained Frans Floris. Biography Lombard was bor ...

. He spent 12 years in Antwerp working on a book of engravings of antiquities, called "Medaglien oft tronien der Roomsche Keysers" (medallions or busts of Roman emperors). Goltzius was married more than once. His first wife was Lysbeth Verhulst. Lysbeth Verhulst was the sister of

Mayken Verhulst Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599), also known as Marie Bessemers,Greer, p. 26. was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the four most important female artists in ...

and Barbara Verhulst, who were respectively married to the painters

Pieter Coecke van Aelst Pieter Coecke van Aelst or Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder ( Aalst, 14 August 1502 – Brussels, 6 December 1550) was a Flemish painter, sculptor, architect, author and designer of woodcuts, goldsmith's work, stained glass and tapestries.

and

Jacob de Punder Jacob de Punder or Jacques de Punder (1527 – c.1570), was a Flemish Renaissance painter mainly known for his portrait paintings. Biography Jacob de Punder was born in Mechelen. The early Flemish biographer Karel van Mander states in the '' ...

.Jacques de Punder
at the

Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

Goltzius would occasionally collaborate on commissions with his brother-in-law Jacob de Punder. Goltzius had his own printshop in Bruges, where he published "Caius Julius Caesar, or a history of Roman Emperors in medals" in 1563, and "The life of Julius Caesar" in 1566. In 1567 he published the book "Fastos" for which he was made an honorary Roman citizen by the Rome council (and which was noted in his next book called "Caesar Augustus" in 1574). He published his final book in 1576 on the emperors of Greece in medallions. His portrait was painted twice by

Antonis Mor Anthonis Mor, also known as Anthonis Mor van Dashorst and Antonio Moro (c. 1517 – 1577), was a Netherlandish portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe. He has also been referred to as Antoon, Anthonius, Anthonis or Mor van Dashor ...

in exchange for his medallion book. These paintings, as well as the books, were all honored in verse by various poets. The same goes for the engraved portrait by

Melchior Lorck Melchior Lorck (or: '' Lorichs'' or: '' Lorich'' or: ''Lorch'') (1526/27after 1583 in Copenhagen) was a renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs ...

, used in his last book from 1576 and also used independently.Portrait of Hubert Goltzius; bust-length, in profile to right; set in an oval frame, 1574, engraving
at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

He painted a "Last Judgement" in the tribunal of the city hall of Venlo in 1557, which is still installed there.Hubert Goltzius
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History He travelled to Italy in the years 1558-1560, and made a trip to Germany in 1570. He died in

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population. The area of the whole city a ...

References

External links

Hubert Goltzius
on Artnet
The Hubertus Goltzius Prize
awarded by the

Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium The Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium, known in Dutch as the Koninklijk Belgisch Genootschap voor Numismatiek and in French as the Société Royale de Numismatique de Belgique, is a society focusing on the field of numismatics. About the Society ...

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