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"inscription": "lower left, in plate: HG[in monogram]oltzius Invent. et sculpt. A\u00b0.1589. ; across bottom, in plate: Amphityoniadae virtus terraque marique / Quem latet? et tanti saeua nouerca mali? / Ille tot expositus monstris, Hydraeque, tricorpor / Geryon atque tibi, flammiuomoque Caco. / Ille h\u00eec Antaeum, et superat te Acheloe bicornem; / Naiades at truncum fruge ferace beant.",
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"title": "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints",
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"title": "A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland",
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"description": "The exaggerated and unnatural musculature of this figure may suggest that the Netherlandish artist Hendrick Goltzius had never studied a real human body. Indeed, he pulled from a mixture of sources including classical sculpture, Italian art, and his imagination. Goltzius ushered in Mannerism in Northern Europe, a style that featured exaggerated forms and metaphorical and allegorical subject matter. Known for his skill with an engraving burin, he transformed the technique, creating engraved lines that taper and swell to emphasize volume and form to extreme effect.",
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