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Volume 2, page 160-169
... s saddened? And my spiritSo greatly disturbed? Why does my strength fail me?The nightingale answered: Come, do come,And take pleasure in meadows and parks,Freedom is a worthy kingdom,Go seek her...
... se brush gave imperishable lifeTo so many others, and still has to give to many more,Is not violated by death through shipwreck out of revenge.He was also remembered by his friend Abraham van Groeningen, a fine intellect, who wished him good fortune on this journey with a witty sonnet. He returned to his fatherland with ho...
... . It has happened that one of his disciples showed him the sketch of his composition (as everyone had to do every week), but had paid little attention to the correct workings of the figures, which he had put down any old way. At once it was being said, read the text; and asked, is that supposed to be the figure who says this? If they then answered yes, then Hoogstraten usually said: Imagine that I am that other person, to whom you have to say this; say it to me. If they then declaimed the words according to the--------* Provost. There are two of them who change from year to year and are most responsible for the business of the mint. By them differences between masters and apprentices...
... a scriptural subject in which I had invented some additions as decoration for the--------* Gestures. To give his students a firmer impression of the gestures and movements that ought to accompany an artful address and to make them more used to it, he chose the most competent of his disciples (when he lived in the front house, which has since been joined to the brewery of the Oranjeboom in Dordrecht, where he had a...
... ents, which were thus: Whether the case of Adam was a contingent business or whether God had foreknowledge of it. He laid it back down, but ere he left me said. When I was young it did the same and thought it was a pastime, but when I became wiser, I found that it was time wasted.He was usually of a quiet and steady spirit, and if at times something occurred amongst his disciples that annoyed him, or if they carried out some pranks, as the young are sometimes wont to do, he did not lash out at them but knew how the temper the bite of his reproaches with the sweetness of his calm and accommodating nature. One instance, may it not bore you reader,...
... d him, went thrice around the easel at which I was sitting without speaking. But (after he had stood behind me for a while) called my accomplices, displayed the stick with the penknife tied to the front and said: what was the purpose of the tool? A penknife tied at right angles to a dust-mop? But none of us answered, but we stood with our eyes turned to the ground, just like criminals in the place of justice. Finally (after he had turned and examined the stick about six times where the penknife was tied) he began to say: See, this is a very clever invention; whoever the inventor may be? It would truly serve well the reac...
... same year on the 21st of November. His brother’s son David van Hoogstraten made this in his memory on his portrait painted by himself [2].Thus Hoogstraten painted himself after lifeBut better still in such a series of paintingsFull of art, which free his name of mortality.Now the Dordrecht maid sheds her tears on his grave.His brother François van Hoogstraten I honoured him with an elegy in which he introduced him speaking,...
... emorative Text onJAN van HOOGSTRATEN,In the gallery of the Church of the Cross in Vienna.I carried art to its highest,When a harpy* took me down:Death, to rob me of that fame,Overtook my youth prematurely.A certain sculptor of marble, a friend of Samuel van Hoogstraten, honoured his gravestone with a marble infant, depicting the transience of human life.It was grievous for my master that such--------* Quaedam species morbi comitialis....
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Volume 2, page 110-119
... ted on the occasion that he had misbehaved badly, when his father, who was a rash man, followed him to the house of his teacher Jan van Goyen, threatening to bash in his head, whereupon van Goyen said to his other students: Berg hem, while holding back the father and taming his temper.He was the son of PIETER CLAESZ. of Haarlem, who first painted fish and later small pieces which usually featured a table with all sorts of sugar pastry in...
... women, very useful for the married man who looks to the eyes of his angel to see how her head is inclined.He was so greatly inclined to artful drawings by Italian and other masters that he could not rest until he owned them. No less was his passion for prints, of which Jan Pietersz. Zomer has told me that he dared pay 60 guilders for a print by Raphael of Urbino. This was the massacre of the innocents with a pine tree [1]. As a consequence his bequeathed art on paper (which was sold in Amsterdam shortly after his death in the year 1683) fetched a goodly sum of money.He was exceptionally diligent, as we have said, and ...
... buildings as well as graceful because of its additions and recession.But above all it is amazing that a man who painted so many pieces was able to think up such a multitude of arrangements and subjects (so that not one resembles another). The burgomaster van der Hulk in Dordrecht had him paint a large work depicting a mountainous landscape with oxen, cows, sheep, figures etc., which still hangs with his heirs. At the same time he ordered a work from Jan Both, promising each 800 guilders, and an additional gift for he...
... awn covering the fields with a blue veil, the bright afternoon revealing the objects clearly, and the dusk fading the green fields, trees, and terrain with its saffron-coloured glow.Some years ago I saw a beautiful and artfully painted piece by him with the art lover Marinus de Jeude, then bailiff of the Haarlem court, which stood out from all ...
... nsThe death of her partner:So JAN mourned over ANDRIESHis brother, torn away from him,By the sad fate of death, which does notBother with mourning or grief.I will at once mention what accident caused the demise of ANDRIES.Joachim von Sandrart says: That he drowned in the night having wandered away from company. And the author of the book Abrégé de la Vie des peintres says on folio 429: Henrik was the landscape painter and drowned or suffocated, who being in Venice & heading for home in the night fell into a canal. Who has ever heard of Henrik Both? And consequently the ...
... red the mistake committed. Most of the circumstances run alike but in two of them I slipped through emulation, which the reader...
... ir brush to display mirrors of virtueThis lesson is not new, but an eager stomach also likes well-warmed spices, especially when they are refreshed with a fresh sauce.It is not appropriate that one openly shows scandalousness, guile, and repulsive and filthy acts which are transacted in the dark or through own shame behind curtains.The arts of painting and poetry are sisters and are both nurtured by the modest nymphs of Parnassus, whose honour is slighted by such activities. What do you think is the reason why the play about Joseph is kept out of the theatre by many?...
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Volume 2, page 60-69
... e, the ancestor of Dirk I, Count of Holland, in remembrance of this ancestry.The Trojans carried a swine on their field banners.The ancient Goths a female bear.The Alans, when they conquered Spain, a cat.The Scythians dragons and other terrible creatures and the Romans under Trajan the same. I have no other proof for all this other than that Franciscus Junius, Samuel van ...
... red the demi-gods in such great numbers as the ancient Romans, as they were brought over from abroad by the conq...
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... used that as a banner or military standards. This is not only confirmed by Vulturius [ = Gerard Geldenhouwer] but also by Ovid, where he says: That respect for the hay was then as great as later for the military standards with eagles.Plutarch also said: That Romulus, having assembled a host of people, divided these into groups of a hundred men of which each group was accompanied by a leader who had raised a hand full of hay on a spear, after which the followers were named Manipulares, handful, which is confirmed by the top poet Ovid with these words:Pertica suspensos potabat longa maniplos,Unde Maniplaris nomina miles habet....
... ould be true that the Romans carried the swine on their army banners (as taken over from the Trojans). Still it appears to me that they only had it depicted on their banners after they had conquered the Jewish region, to spite those peoples. For how grievous that was for them and what revulsion they had for that sign became apparent when Vitellus set out against the Arabs, when they had ...
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... the heat of battle, of which many were devoured and others squeezed to death by them.As far as I’m concerned, I judge such to be most useful competences (to evade all ridicule) for those who have joined the practice school of Pictura, especially to be trained in the depiction of histories. If they ignore my sound advice or can’t be bothered to read this, I may as a consequence rightly regret the trouble of so much research.We have repeatedly complained that the time of birth of some commendable Dutch...
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Volume 1, page 370-381
... n der Helst, who along with Gerard Dou, two bright torches of art, will come onstage along with their portraits at the beginning of our second volume.We have already brought a good many painters onto the stage, seen many kinds of brush handling, and heard the farcical rôle of their lives played. Pictura’s art school has certainly nurtured a great variety of art children.In general one may say of this school of art that she is a treasury in which all the images of visible nature are imitated with liveliness and the various acts of human beings are contained, in which all lovers of art, no matter how different in preference and passion, can find their choice and pleas...
... ing judged by his captain. This judge sat in an infant's toilet-chair, preening in the night as jauntily as a peasant bailiff amidst his village council, while the older ones are passing judgment. His staff of judgment was a long painted Bengalese tobacco pipe. Before him appeared the criminal, who looked down his nose so guilelessly as if he could not have been guilty. Tied up with soldier's fuses, he was held on both sides by two apish policemen. Between them and the judge stood the prosecutor with a long, pursed snout, like a pig eating straw. In ...
... even so with the art of the aforementioned Teniers and Jan Steen. Their comical scenes are eagerly sought after and well-remunerated, while other art is difficult to market. And we also agree with Junius that they did not lack the intellect to be able to depict worthier subjects to their credit if they had put their minds to it, of which we have already seen samples. It is true that such scenes with comical subjects encounter fewer admirers at one time than at another and that all those who have aimed at an everlasting name have always occupied themselves with great thoughts...
... are also others who observe her fate with a smile, mistakenly believing that the lustre of the conquest belongs to Rome as hereditary tenure.Or Marcius Coriolanus, where his wife and mother (moved by the cries and tears of the Roman women) beseech hi...
... st of the deal? After all it is the case that most painters would rather have their artwork rewarded with hard ducats than with a half worn-out court doll.Leaving this aside we say, to knot the broken thread of our digression back together:If, now, such or similar instances worthy of depiction (of which there are a multitude in ancient writers) were rendered with their required elegance and diverse emotions by fixed and recognizable expressions by a brush of such ability as that of Jan Steen and with that ultimate detail and power of Gerard Dou, and if as much time and patience...
... riting and others of speaking well. Asclepius among the Argives, Demosthenes among the Athenians, Aeschines among those of Rhodes and Cicero among the Romans were exceptionally eloquent but would never commit their orations to writing, saying: that they did not wish to entrust to their pen the fame that they had garnered with their tongue.To return once more to painters, we say: that we have not only experienced that these have usually chosen subjects for reflection that corresponded to their nature, but further agree with Franciscus Junius: That artists have generally devoted their labours to such things to which they were led by...
... a general rule, no more than Androcydes, having depicted fish so marvellously in his Scylla, must be taken for a great glutton of fish, and that this particular predilection was of use to him in painting them. Which Plutach adduces in Symposium book 4, Quaest. 1. But I do affirm that among all subjects, that on which incli...
... ns with tops washed in green which are covered more and more with a blue veil by the intervening air, there is more than enough from which to choose. Or thin clouds in which objects finally fade due to greater density or distance. As with, in view of this last item, the Ascension of Christ, thinking of which I also remember the handsome comparison that a Dordrecht poet made of it, by which he thus rendered with his pen as if with paints the disappearance of the Saviour Jesus from the view of his disciples:Just as an eagle flapsHis wings with joy when he sees...
... l test what guidance may achieve in connection with those who are of mean spirit or those who by distinguished examples may be spurred on to competence in great undertakings in art.ANNOUNCEMENT.The lovers (whose desire and longing could not be postponed) will re...
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Volume 1, page 350-359
... door was yes; upon which she continues that she would like to have a word with him. When the maid arrived out back with that message, everyone at once had an eye on Leendert Oom, while the maid said in jest (not knowing she was a diviner): Leendert Oom, here comes a spinster to court you. They then ushered the damsel into a room. Leendert Oom, who was a little put out by this incident and having heard from the maid that the damsel was very neatly dressed, did not want to appear altogether unkempt either, combed out his locks, pulled up his socks and, with his finger and thumb, ironed the creases out of...
... rty. Observing this, I turn away from them more and more; but life thus becomes ever lonelier. This would as soon convince me to commence a companionable life, and in case this would also please you, you would not find me unwilling.Leendert Oom, who had never heard such a sermon nor had ever received a message which had more troubled his intestines, said, with trembling mouth and shaking legs. Well Miss! well Miss, that seems strange to me!That I already knew ahead of time (she answered),...
... ps, with these words: Miss, what was spoken of yesterday evening will not come to pass. Very well, dear Sir, answered the Spinster, and then they said goodbye to each other. Since then it has always remained like a mini-maxim in...
... e incidents of the pending sea battle,* to which end a certain galleon skipper would carry him around, or in location, so that he would find the best view for his drawings.Later on he entered the service (I know not by what coincidence) of King Charles II, and subsequently of James II, for whom he made many artful drawings of sea battles, sea incidents and other encounters ...
... mpetent to paint the portraits of Count Hendrik van Nassau-Siegen [2] and his spouse, the Countess Maria Magdalena van Limburg-Stirum, the Earl of Benthem and more of the great, by which he garnered great fame. But he later turned entirely to the print trade. He had a son named Cornelis who was a commendable plate cutter, as may especially be seen from the portrait of his father cut by h...
... large figures and portraits. In his time he showed his art in Rome, Germany, Spain and England. In particular he was honoured by the Prince of Orange, Hendrik Frederik (later changed to Frederik Hendrik) and his son, Prince Willem II, for his wisdom, behaviour and art. Gerard Seghers was his teacher of art. He was born in the year 1613 and in 1660 lived in Antwerp, where ...
... Amsterdam on a piece of low land, fenced in for the purpose, where they were able to thrive, and also that he had a cage behind the house to keep the reptiles close at hand ready for his service, and that these snakes became so used to him with time that when he wanted to paint them, he would arrange them with his maulstick in such a way as he required, and that they remained thus until he had done painting.His portrait is located in Plate R at the bottom, and next to it are some herbs under which a snake appears.Mankind (says the common proverb) lives by changes. It can hardly displease the reader that we sometimes change characters,...
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Volume 1, page 310-319
... storical depictions. No one will notice the mistakes made in them other than those who are experienced in histories, from whom one may expect reprimands and whose observations the inexperienced heed, We could say more on the topic were it not that the stage curtain, already raised, did not order us to break off.Until now the theatre has featured nothing but painters. Henceforth famous paintresses will also appear and at their allotted times will come onto the stage next to the men and by this changes amuse the reader anew and inflame his dormant desire for what they say....
... ng of Gracián: The truth rarely reaches our ears purely, especially when it comes from afar, because she then catches some paint from the passions that she meets on her way.3) Marietta Tintoretto, born in Venice, learned art with her father [= Jacopo Tintoretto], to which she was so drawn that she was accustomed when still young to dress herself in boy's clothes to be allowed to be with her father (when he painted large works away from home), who loved her unusually much, so that she was taken for his son. She excelled in the painting of portraits, painted many Ladies, who liked to be with her was because she was able to entertain them with her singing an...
... omen is known to all peoples,All of the earth raises her praise in spite of slandering pressure10) Mary broke the bottle with Nardus’ salve to piecesAnd poured it gladly on the saviour’s holy head.All these laudable capacities, arts and sciences pointed out in so many examples, which will be enough by themselve...
... he gifts of intellect would stand out in her at the same time.She was born in Utrecht in the year 1607 to the great credit of that city. At the age of three she was able to read with discrimination, and at the age of six she could cut...
... points of languages and the very essence of philosophy and biblical texts, and exchanged letters on these subjects with learned men of her century. But all this fame on account of her art and learning she threw away all at once when, under the pretext of wishing to serve the lowly Jesus in simplicity, she turned to the Labadist zealotry, which also took her from Utrecht and her friends to Altona, where a society of kindred spirits was being formed. To which manner of change the poet...
... young, Brouwer was kept by his mother to draw foliage and flowers on cloth, which she then embroidered with the needle and, cut into mittens and bibs, sold to farmers' wives.Frans Hals passing by there by accident and seeing how freely and inventively he handled this work, asked him: would he not like to become a painter? To which he immediately answered yes, if his mother would allow it. Frans Hals asked it of his mother, who allowed it, provided that he would board her son....
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Volume 1, page 280-289
... subjects from the Bible were discussed, not hesitating to controvert those kinds of addresses and exposing the facts to doubt, saying: that by his fifteenth year, the scales had fallen from his eyes. And were it not that the commendable art that he possessed demanded it, his way of life would not have tempted us to grant him a place among the artists. Incidentally, he was not alone in this; we have discovered more scabrous sheep in the flock. His worthy art of the brush...
... w the insides of most churches within Amsterdam in various ways after life, with pulpit, organ, seating, gravestones and other decorations, so that they may be identified. With some he showed a sermon, in others when the people arrive at the church, each in his customary dress.The most important of his artworks was a view of the choir and that part of the Nieuwe Kerk where the tomb, or marble cenotaph of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter stands. This piece was commissioned from him for a substantial sum of money by Jonker Engel de Ruyter, but he ...
... that his king was dissatisfied, at whom he growled with a surly head: If the king of the oxen did not desire these pieces, he could sell them to someone else. Thus his unbridled tongue turned friends into enemies and even the artists gave him the cold shoulder. He spoke of all their work with contempt. He compared the paintings of Gerard de Lairesse to the Prinsenvlag, yes the best art was not safe from denigration.It happened late one evening that De Lairesse arrived at the inn where De Witte sat, took a piece of chalk and drew some lines on the table to defy De Witte, who was accustomed to brag about his geometry. ...
... n or right to put an end to this life, but that this depends on the pleasure of the Creator. He appears to have sinned in this respect, as is apparent from the events that occurred at that time, as from the witnesses who watched the conclusion.I have mentioned the disputes between him and his landlord. It occurred in the last evening of his life that hard words passed between them, so that the landlord swore a dire oath that he no longer wanted him under his roof. Whereupon he got up, and said: That he had already seen to it or invented a means so that he would not say this a second time, and went out the door. Two o...
... 92, at the age of 85 years.When an artist edifies by his way of life and at the same time amuses the eyes with the depictions of his brush, and uplifts the attention through worthy reflections on subjects that are instructive and edifying, then amusement and usefulness are paired.Sculptures and pictures are books for laymen says the conciliary pronouncement, but they must also play the part. A playful feast of Bacchus, where one sees the soused satyrs lustfully chasing the field nymphs to rob them of the veil that covers their nudity, or stick thei...
... nce your lustre.Your beauty, fame and splendour,Will be led into the graveAnd covered by a tombstone in the dark.Has the art brush filled money bags to bursting and...
... But added to this there was a second reason (which we found in the Beschryving der Stad Gouda), to wit (after the glass is painted, it must be baked in an oven) that this repeatedly failed while he was in Italy. That is why he cursed the pursuit and turned entirely to panel painting, at which he succeeded so well that the prince of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel, honoured his portrait, painted by himself [1], with this verse:...
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Volume 1, page 270-279
... to say something about his natural and inimitable art of etching, which alone would have been enough to secure his reputation. There are several hundred of these known amongst amateurs of prints, also no less a number of pen sketches on paper, in which the states of mood in relation to all kinds of...
... taverns or company and even less at home, where he lived only soberly. And when he was at work, he often had a piece of bread with cheese or pickled herring for his meal. Despite all this, one did not hear news of his substantial estate trumpeted about after his death, which occurred in 1674.He had as his wife a peasant woman from Raarep, or Ransdorp in Waterland, a little small in stature but with well-made features and a curvaceous body. One sees her portrait beside his in one of his prints, of which we made use, showing his portrait in Plate M below Anna...
... w, by doing the opposite, he has skipped over this trial, doing as Tacitus said of Tiberius: that he avoided all things by which the people could have occasion to make a comparison between him and Augustus, whose memory he saw was dear to all.Among the multitude of students which he nurtured in art the following are also mentioned, whom we have placed appropriately after their master because we do not know the time of their birthCHRISTOPHER PAUDISS, a Nethersaxon (also mentioned by Sandrart) who later painted with Duke Albrecht Sigismund of Bavaria.FRANS WULFHAGEN, born i...
... c., painted by Jürgen Ovens [12], Vondel expresses himself thus:To paint the Heer Godart, the painter mixed,Sincere calm and knightly eleganceIn the eyes, from which one sees the honour of Utrecht shine forth:Just as they sparked Frederik with their dash,When at the Baltic court the breast plate honoured him:Now he courageously plies through the Spanish oceanTo Phillip, who triumphed in East and West,And casts lightning on the curse of the Turkish half moon.Madrid will cheer at the lustre of Amerongen,And the Episcopal Sticht, when it receives the emissaryOf the state at the great palace, along a ...
... He had a brother, but whether he was older or younger than he I have not been able to ascertain. He was namedESAIAS van de VELDE and painted battles and other equestrian combats, and poaching scenes.He also often lent out his brush to decorate the works of other masters with figures, horses and troupes of horsemen dressed in the Spanish manner.In the year 1626 he lived in Haarlem, and in 1630 in Leiden. His brushwork was esteemed at that time, and dearly paid for.People believe that Willem van de Velde I, the pen draughtsman, father of Adriaen and Willem van de Velde II, born in 1610, was the brother of both the previously m...
... and empresses painted life-sized by Titian. They were engraved in copper by the mentioned Aegidius Sadeler [13]; which artworks along with other works were sold at a high price after the death of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham to Emperor Ferdinand III to grace his palace. Spurred on by this he improved so much in art that the King (to wit, Charles Stuart) had him paint various pieces and gave him a gift for his diligence. And what made him all the more beloved at the court was that he was able artfully to imitate the portraits of King Henry VIII, Thomas Mor...
... ome and Mary Magdalene which, bought by cardinal Barberini, were sent as gift to the King of Spain [= Philip IV]. Later he made an altarpiece for the church of Holy Mary, depicting the 12 mysteries of the rosary, which made his name renowned, so that when the King of Spain ordered that 12 pieces of painting by twelve of the most important painters to be found in Rome be purchased, there was one by each of Guido Reni, Guercino, Giuseppe Cesari, Massimo Stanzione, Orazio Gentileschi, Pietro da Cortona, Valentin de Boulogne, Andrea Sacchi, Giovanni Lanf...
... r the birth of Christ.† Holy Cross. Sulpicius Severus tells about the miraculous discovery of the cross: That Helena, above mentioned, while digging up the hill or levelled top of the mount of Calvary to found a temple in that location, found three crosses, of which she was able by revelation to distinguish the cross of Jesus from those of the murderers by having a dead person touched by it, at once returned to life. According to the writer this is to have transpired in the year 326 after Christ’s birth....
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Volume 1, page 260-269
... red to keep the incomplete portrait for himself sooner than put the brush to it to please them, which als...
... inted in grisaille like the little piece of the preaching of John the Baptist [4], marvellous because of the natural depiction of the attentive expressions and varying dress, to be seen in Amsterdam with Mister Postmaster Jan Six. This has me decide firmly that he gave this aspect his special attention and paid less attention to the r...
... pects of art, and could pass for good and honest paintings.In addition there are countless things and subjects that are each in turn employed in painting for which life is inapplicable, such as, for instance, flying, tumbling, jumping, or walking figures, whose movement and action change every instant, so that the painter can't make use of them in this way. However, there have been in all ages masters who to their great credit knew how to paint such subjects marvellously...
... sation without the passion of the soul, and therefore the expressions are unnatural, as they do not animate the features by the power of the spirit, but by force. As consequence perfection cannot be achieved in art through the imitation of life in this respect, but the work must necessarily remain deficient because its object lacks what is required for a work of art.Also many emotions do not last for long, for the expressions instantly change appearances with the least shift in emotion, so that there is hardly time for sketching, leave alone painting, and consequently no other way can be conceived by which the practitioner of art can profit in this respect than by a single perception a...
... ral capacity which does not require our lessons, our instruction serving only to train those who do not have this gift by proven means in order to become competent in this.To clarify this business of the use of life a little further, I say I. It must be preceded by a concrete conception of the entire subject of what one wants to achieve, of which one cannot form a perfect conception unless one knows and understands what is required in a work of art that one proposes to do: specifically the arrangement of figures...
... tisfied,At least his, which tolerated neither rules, nor any reasonOf proportion in a body's members.I laud this honesty in Pels and appeal to the reader to interpret my candid judgement positively, not as arising out of hatred of this man's work, but to compare the different conceptions and varying practices of art with each other and to urge the studious to emulate what is most praiseworthy. For aside from this I must say along with the afore...
... oceeded handily with his work, especially in his late period, when, seen from up close, it looked as if it had been smeared on with a bricklayer's trowel. Wherefore he pulled people back if they came up to his studio and looked at his ...
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Volume 1, page 170-179
... for the ancient privilege, thatFirst Greece, then ancient Rome has had:Her art fire occasionally breeds and reproduces from villagersElevated spirits who, with pure desire as reward,Decorate art with a shining crown of honour.We apply this to PIETER SAENREDAM, born in 1597 on the 9th day of June in the village of Assendelft.In the year 1608, having lost his father [= Jan Saenredam] early on, he came to live with his mother in Haarlem. And finding himself by nature drawn to art, he got the opportunity to ...
... re he has today’s city hall raise itself to its old glory and speak thus.That old building, destroyed by sparks,Long lay buried in ashes and rubble,And was no longer mentioned, sinceIt did not show itself on panel,By Saenredam’s brushes and paints.That saving spirit [Spaar-geest]* had it reborn before its dying,Snatched from death, which destroys all;And teaches to contemplate in the art of paintingThe insignificance of buildings,While my...
... that he reached a good old age. Incidentally, I must also say that it is easily seen from his brushwork that he understood the nude well. And as far as his drawings on paper and parchment are concerned, skilfully and extremely carefully done in mixed black and red chalk, the art-loving Mister Isaac del Court has the most and best.In Pieter Rixtel’s Mengelrymen I find the following on the depiction of the Haarlem poet Franciscus Snellinx, painted by Jan de Bray.De Bray shows his art to Snellinx on panel;But Snellinx s...
... e Grimani, which his descendents have kept. He was a good portraitist, but when he later had opportunity to work for English gentlemen (who did not have much patience to sit for him at length, which required getting on with the work), he went over it a little lightly (as people say as a proverb), which is why his last works are not as good as his first. He died in Brielle around the year 1628 or 29.At the...