Hans Bol

Hendrick Goltzius

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black-and-white portrait of a man in a decorative frame. The man has light-colored hair and wears a high-collared shirt with billowy sleeves and ruffles. He appears within an oval frame with a banner above his head reading "IOANNES BOLLIUS MECHLINIEN" and text along the left side reading "LVIII. A. CD. D. XCIII". The frame is surrounded by cherubs, floral arrangements, and foliage at the top and sides. A skull sits on a ribbon below the man's right shoulder. Two cherubs sit on a ledge above, one with a mirror and one writing on a globe. The background of the image has decorative text below the portrait. The text reads "Celatam Vitrici effigiem Francisci tudre, Virtutum pictate magis, vitatamq[ue] probatam, Patricium admirari manum, qua florida Temp[us] Et nemus Alsingi penetravit amoenum". The image shows decorative scrollwork at the bottom.