Your concern was to paint fields, lakes, small animals and fountains. These things nourish the eyes wonderfully. By your example, now others paint fields and lakes: the Fauns, the Nymphs and the Dryads sing of you. Continue Reading 103. Gillis Coninxloo
Ingenious picturers live by their brush, and they live, learned Karel, by your pen. You are at the same time a painter and the candid censor of painters. It is a fine thing to paint for the judgment of an artist. Continue Reading 105. Karel van Mander
Flowering Tuscany rejoices in the Belgian van der Straet. She envies the Belgians so great an artist, whose works Myron himself and Apelles admire, whom beautiful, learned Bruges brought forth. Continue Reading 107. Johannes Stradanus
This man of Gouda is held to be the greatest painter after Lucas van Leyden – both [are] glories of the Dutch land. He taught how well painting and poetry go together. What he painted, the other had first imagined with his genius.
Aachen gave himself over to painting from his earliest years. What the youth accomplished men could scarcely do. Although the Italian land despised the German youth, soon, observing his skill, mistress Rome was amazed. Continue Reading 113. Hans von Aachen
This is the sculptor and painter celebrated in many lands, who surpassed many in the dexterity of his hand, [and] whom the land of Italy admired. He remains in noble Haarlem, fatherland and guesthouse of artists. Continue Reading 115. Hendrick Goltzius
No one was more eminent in painting in lifelike manner. Therefore the man of Delft was said to be the new Zeuxis. He was invited by great princes: but his honoured fatherland held him more than other cities. Continue Reading 119. Michael van Mierevelt
Van Veen is illustrious for his morals, his genius and his skill. What his genius imagined, he also painted with his own hand. He was invited by great kings, but he himself held kingdoms and worlds to be less important than his sweet fatherland. Continue Reading 121. Otto van Veen
Brill the painter showed fortresses and woods, joyous crops and the work of oxen, and mountains. Therefore he was the more pleasing to the one who is first on the holy summit (the Pontiff), and to the one who is illustrious in Tyrian purple. Continue Reading 123. Paul Bril
He used the paintbrush with zeal from his tender years, he who taught how much taking pains and working hard can accomplish. Before others he was known by the nickname “painter”. How well the nickname matches the artist! Continue Reading 125. Cornelius Cz. van Haarlem
