Bacchus with a Drinking Bowl, Hendrick Goltzius, 1593 - 1597
engraving, h 250mm × w 183mm More details
Cartouches with auricular motifs were used quite often in engravings, but here Bacchus holds a drinking bowl, a three-dimensional object entirely made up of kwab forms. That was original and daring: in reality such objects were almost certainly not yet made by 1596.
