Show of hands: Christopher P. Heuer on Hendrick Goltzius. (From the Vault Preview).

"TO BECOME AND BEHAVE LIKE SOMETHING else," wrote Walter Benjamin, "... is really a life-determining force." Long before Andy Warhol or Cindy Sherman tinkered with mechanical reproduction and artistic identity, there was Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), a sulky, petulant artist of astonishing versatility. Dubbed "the Netherlandish Proteus" by famed contemporary Karel van Mander, Goltzius made a career of ventriloquizing the styles and techniques of older Italian and German artists. His "Durers" and "Lucas van Leydens" duped connoisseurs, and as a reproductive printmaker he…