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Italian engraver and editor [+]
He arrived in Holland around 1602 and in 1608 was accepted as a citizen of Utrecht. His first surviving painting is dated that same year, A Fleet of the Dutch East India Company en Route eastwards arr [+]
This Italian painter learned art from her father, the artist Orazio Gentileschi, whose influence is particularly evident in her early works. Following a period in Florence (1614-1620), se settled in R [+]
Miguel de Pret was a Spanish painter of Flemish origin specialized in still lifes. His biography can be reconstructed on the basis of his death certificate, his will and the documents generated for hi [+]
A Netherlander by birth, Candid moved to Florence with his father, the bronze-caster Elias de Witte, when he was about ten years old. Biographical details are provided by Karel van Mander (1548-1606), [+]
He was a Flemish painter and drawer. His brothers were Cornelis and Jan de Vos. Just as his brothers did, he studied with David Remeeus and achieved the rank of master around 1620. His first paintings [+]
A student of Luca Cambiaso (1527-85) from around the late 1560s, they both moved to Spain in 1583, when the master accepted an invitation to work for Philip II. Although Cambiaso died shortly thereaft [+]
Snyders is one of the 17th-century Flemish painters of highest repute, both for his still lifes and for his hunting scenes, and was very well known and appreciated, particularly in Spain. Considering [+]
No other 17th-century European painter combined artistic talent, social and economic success and a high cultural level like Rubens. Though primarily a painter, he also made numerous designs for prints [+]
This artist of Catalan origin received his early training in El Escorial, where he was surrounded by Spanish and Italian artists and their works and was able to follow their most significant innovatio [+]
He was the ninth child of a wealthy family from Leiden. His father, Harmen Gerritsz. van Rijn, came from a family of millers who had settled in the city and who adopted the nickname Van Rijn since the [+]
After a period of training with his father, Bartholomeus de Momper, he joined the painters’ Guild of Saint Luke of his city around 1581. In 1594, he collaborated with Cornelis Floris on the decoration [+]
The artist was born in a small town in the Duchy of Lorraine, an independent territory in the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, a century and a half before it became part of France. A baker's son, he is doc [+]
He came from a wealthy family. His artistic training remains totally unknown. A document from 1620 already cites him as a painter in Haarlem. From 1631 onwards, he is documented in the book of the Haa [+]
Born in a town halfway between Ferrara and Bologna, Barbieri soon received the nickname "Il Guercino" owing to his squint ("quercio" in Italian means cross-eyed). He was chiefly self taught in a parti [+]
The most important early-17th-century Flemish painter after Rubens, Van Dyck was considered Rubens’ equal by the 18th century. Born in Antwerp, the Spanish Netherlands’ main mercantile and cultural ce [+]
Little is known about his life with certainty. From a document dated 29 September 1640, in which the painter states that he was forty-one years old, it can be presumed that he was born between 1596 an [+]
He was the son of a pharmacist settled in the city of Deventer. After the death of his father around 1607, the family decided to leave the city. He possibly began his training in Amsterdam in the work [+]