Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library
On display during the month of October in Special Collections is an action-filled depiction of David defeating Goliath by Swiss artist, Tobias Stimmer (1539-1584). Stimmer’s woodcut compresses different moments of the action into a single image. His woodcut accompanies the description of this event by the 1st-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in Conrad Lauterbach’s 16th-century German translation of Josephus’ collected works.
Special Collections' October spotlight exhibit, "Images of David and Goliath in the Sixteenth-Century," features Stimmer’s interpretation of this battle. For another take, you are invited to take a walk to the Snite Museum where the Snite presents Rembrandt’s David and Goliath (1655). Rembrandt’s etching is currently on display through November 26, 2017, in the fall exhibition, "Rembrandt’s Religious Prints: the Feddersen Collection at the Snite Museum of Art."