User:Jahsonic/The grotesque beasts of Arent van Bolten
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User:Jahsonic/The grotesque beasts of Arent van Bolten[1]
Two chimerical creatures, both with drooping breasts, watched over by three disembodied grotesque masks, after Arent van Bolten[2].
It's been quite difficult to trace the provenance of this print.
First, via Biomediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture[3], a paper on chimaera phylogeny by Sven Drühl I found the unidentified print above. Searching some more, The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus[4] says that it is by Hendrick Goltzius.
However, the inexhaustable[5] Marinni contradicts this and attributed it to Arent van Bolten (c.1573 - c.1633)[6].
End of quest.
Two other favourites from that series include a grotesque holding a club spurning another grotesque[7] and two footed phalli stabbing each other while surrounded by two grotesque drooping masks that resemble an elongated scrotum[8], that last a real find for the metamorphic genitalia category.
Note the similarity to Les Songes Drolatiques[9] (1565) and the Varie Figuri Gobbi (1616, ‘Various Hunchbacked Figures’) by Jacques Callot.
PS. Europeana.eu has easy access to all of the prints[10].
