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Two [[chimerical]] creatures, both with [[ptosis|drooping breasts]], watched over by three disembodied [[grotesque mask]]s, after Arent van Bolten.
It's been quite difficult to trace the provenance of this print.
First, via ''Biomediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture''[http://biomediale.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/?blang=eng&author=druehl], a paper on [[chimaera]] [[phylogeny]] by [[Sven Drühl]] I found the unidentified print above.
Searching some more, ''[[The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus]]''[http://dolorosa-reveries.blogspot.be/2010/09/hendrick-goltzius-engravings-1604.html] says that it is by [[Hendrick Goltzius]].
However, the inexhaustable[http://marinni.livejournal.com/789365.html] [[Marinni]] contradicts this and attributed it to [[Arent van Bolten]] (c.1573 - c.1633)[http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/assetimage2.jsp?id=RP-P-1965-797].
End of quest.
Two other favourites from that series include a grotesque holding a club [[spurning]] another grotesque[http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/assetimage2.jsp?id=RP-P-2004-22] and two footed phalli stabbing each other while surrounded by two grotesque drooping masks that resemble an elongated [[scrotum]][http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/assetimage2.jsp?id=RP-P-2004-25], that last a real find for the [[metamorphic genitalia]] category.
Note the similarity to ''[[Les Songes Drolatiques]]''[http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/1057544090/francois-desprez-does-rabelais-via-paul] (1565) and the ''[[Varie Figuri Gobbi]]'' (1616, ‘Various Hunchbacked Figures’) by [[Jacques Callot]].
PS. [[Europeana.eu]] has easy access to all of the prints[http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=who%3ABolten%2C+Arent+van].
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[[Florentine Fête]][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Callot_-_Florentine_F%C3%AAte_-_WGA3779.jpg] (1619)
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[[Fantastic Sea Carriage]] [http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/90005527?rpp=20&pg=1&rndkey=20121217&ft=*&where=Netherlands&who=Cornelis+Floris+II&pos=12] by [[Lucas van Doetecum]] (Netherlandish, active 1554–72, died before 1589) after [[Cornelis Floris II]]
Notice the [[cartilage]] which was also present in previous examples of [[zoomorphic]] illustration.
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Two [[chimerical]] creatures, both with [[ptosis|drooping breasts]], watched over by three disembodied [[grotesque mask]]s, after Arent van Bolten.
It's been quite difficult to trace the provenance of this print.
First, via ''Biomediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture''[http://biomediale.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/?blang=eng&author=druehl], a paper on [[chimaera]] [[phylogeny]] by [[Sven Drühl]] I found the unidentified print above.
Searching some more, ''[[The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus]]''[http://dolorosa-reveries.blogspot.be/2010/09/hendrick-goltzius-engravings-1604.html] says that it is by [[Hendrick Goltzius]].
However, the inexhaustable[http://marinni.livejournal.com/789365.html] [[Marinni]] contradicts this and attributed it to [[Arent van Bolten]] (c.1573 - c.1633)[http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/assetimage2.jsp?id=RP-P-1965-797].
End of quest.
Two other favourites from that series include a grotesque holding a club [[spurning]] another grotesque[http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/assetimage2.jsp?id=RP-P-2004-22] and two footed phalli stabbing each other while surrounded by two grotesque drooping masks that resemble an elongated [[scrotum]][http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/assetimage2.jsp?id=RP-P-2004-25], that last a real find for the [[metamorphic genitalia]] category.
Note the similarity to ''[[Les Songes Drolatiques]]''[http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/1057544090/francois-desprez-does-rabelais-via-paul] (1565) and the ''[[Varie Figuri Gobbi]]'' (1616, ‘Various Hunchbacked Figures’) by [[Jacques Callot]].
PS. [[Europeana.eu]] has easy access to all of the prints[http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=who%3ABolten%2C+Arent+van].
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[[Florentine Fête]][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Callot_-_Florentine_F%C3%AAte_-_WGA3779.jpg] (1619)
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[[Fantastic Sea Carriage]] [http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/90005527?rpp=20&pg=1&rndkey=20121217&ft=*&where=Netherlands&who=Cornelis+Floris+II&pos=12] by [[Lucas van Doetecum]] (Netherlandish, active 1554–72, died before 1589) after [[Cornelis Floris II]]
Notice the [[cartilage]] which was also present in previous examples of [[zoomorphic]] illustration.
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