Nicolaus Petri van Deventer

Hendrik Goltzius

National Gallery of Art

The image shows an upper-body portrait of a man with one arm bent on a table and his other hand on a globe. He has a full beard, mustache, pronounced nose, deep-set eyes, and short hair. He wears a textured doublet with a ruff collar. Various scientific objects surround him, including a globe, an armillary sphere, and geometric instruments. In the background, there is a scene with a figure holding a trumpet and a building with columns. A Latin inscription is visible at the top of the image.