{"id":617,"date":"2011-05-03T22:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=617"},"modified":"2011-05-03T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T04:07:07","slug":"saint-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"saint michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/Huberti-and-Wierix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" title=\"Huberti and Wierix\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/Huberti-and-Wierix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Huberti-and-Wierix.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Huberti-and-Wierix-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Huberti-and-Wierix-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>This sketch is the one hundred and twenty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and twenty-three: <\/strong>This evening I was talking with some friends, and couldn&#8217;t take my eyes off an acquaintance&#8217;s fantastic shirt with a large angel and serpent-person creature. It appeared to me to be copied from a late sixteenth-century engraving, and if pressed, I would have guessed Hendrik Goltzius. With him in mind, I was browsing through an exhibition catalog looking for something to sketch, and low and behold, there was the engraving! It wasn&#8217;t made by Goltzius, but rather by another Netherlandish printmaker during the same period: Hieronymus Wierix in 1584. Today&#8217;s sketch is a detail of Saint Michael, who in the picture is overcoming Satan. The precision and detail in the original engraving is extraordinary, and I emulated it as much as I could in the time available.<\/p>\n<p>A picture of the print can be seen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/research\/search_the_collection_database\/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1549380&amp;partid=1&amp;searchText=wierix+michael&amp;fromADBC=ad&amp;toADBC=ad&amp;numpages=10&amp;orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&amp;currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">British Museum&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the one hundred and twenty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day one hundred and twenty-three: This evening I was talking with some friends, and couldn&#8217;t take my eyes off an acquaintance&#8217;s fantastic shirt with a large angel and serpent-person creature. It appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[12,37,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}