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A Proteus revealed: a traveling exhibition of the Mannerist artist Hendrick Goltzius offers an unprecedented survey of his influential career. Along with the prints that won him enduring fame, the show features lesser-known drawings and paintings that vitalized the artistic practices of his Dutch milieu.

From: Art in America  |  Date: 1/1/2004  |  Author: Hirsch, Faye

The landmark exhibition "Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch Master (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints, and Paintings" is rich in art-historical insights, both about Dutch Mannerism and Goltzius himself. (Until Jan. 4, it is at the Toledo Museum of Art, the third and final leg of a tour that originated at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.) From the standpoint of contemporary art, as well, it arrives fortuitously, at a time when critics are hailing the revival of monumental drawing and many artists are ...

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