numerous portraits, sometimes of minute size and showing most delicatework, sometimes almost life-size, such as his own por-trait with the large beard, are all executed with unsur-passed boldness in the free sweep of his line. No otherartist has ever had such complete command over thewhole scale of… … Fig. 65. Hendrick Goltzius : Portraitof Niquet (detail). 144 ENGRAVING IN THE LOW COUNTRIES to an excess of eccentricity. Sometimes these platesare engraved after Martin de Vos, Primaticcio, Strada,and others ; sometimes they are his own composition. Itis only the technical execution, the bravura…
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