The Great Hercules, 1589, Engraving, 21 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (55.5 x 40.4 cm), Prints, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish, Mühlbracht 1558–1617 Haarlem), This remarkable engraving has long been known as the Knollenman, or bulbous man. It shows Goltzius's bulging-muscle figure style at its most extreme. This Hercules is almost an inflated version of the lithe Apollo of a year earlier
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