Harpocrates，沉默之神 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Harpocrates，沉默之神
品名（英）	Harpocrates, the God of Silence
入馆年号	1951年，51.501.6334
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Jan Muller【1571 至 1628】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1593
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 19 英寸 × 14 5/8 英寸 (48.2 × 37.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	扬·穆勒（Jan Muller）使用起伏的线条和经过校准的明暗平衡来创作这幅希腊沉默、秘密和保密之神哈波克拉底的神秘肖像。他的白色头饰从黑暗的背景中闪耀出来，他将食指举到嘴唇上，这是沉默的普遍标志。他头顶边界上的拉丁文铭文重复了他的告诫。三年后的1596年，穆勒雕刻了哲学家奇隆的肖像（入藏号51.501.6335）。这两幅版画都比生活大，并以椭圆形框架呈现，几乎就像透过窗户看到更深的空间一样。穆勒很可能打算将这两幅版画成一对，或者作为从未完成的古代肖像系列中的前两幅版画。在风格和主题上，Harpocrates和Chilon源自Hendrick Goltzius的"幻想肖像"——最重要的风格主义版画家，穆勒可能是他的学徒——和他的学校。它们是历史或神话人物的钢笔画，以大胆的笔触呈现，模仿雕刻的膨胀和逐渐变细的线条。在这里，穆勒将这种风格主义的偏好更进一步，通过创建模仿模仿雕刻的图纸的雕刻，模糊了不同媒体之间的界限。
介绍（英）	Jan Muller uses an undulating line and a calibrated balance of light and dark to create this mysterious portrait of Harpocrates, the Greek god of silence, secrets and confidentiality. His white headdress shines out of the dark background as he raises his forefinger to his lips in the universal sign for silence. The Latin inscription in the border above his head repeats his admonition. Three years later, in 1596, Muller engraved a portrait of the philosopher Chilon (accession no. 51.501.6335). Both prints are larger than life and presented in oval frames, almost as if seen through windows into a deeper space. Muller most probably intended the two engravings as a pair, or as the first two prints in a never completed series of portraits from antiquity. In style and subject matter, Harpocrates and Chilon derive from "fantasy portraits" by Hendrick Goltzius – the foremost Mannerist printmaker, to whom Muller may have been apprenticed -- and his school. They were pen drawings of historical or mythological figures, rendered in bold strokes mimicking the swelling and tapering lines of engravings. Here Muller has taken this mannerist predilection for blurring the lines between different media a step further, by creating engravings that emulate drawings that imitate engravings.