As a gem gleams more prominently in shining gold, [so] the shining bronze-engraver was also a famous historian, and a sculptor and painter, whom Roman coins and calendars wanted as their own Roman citizen. Continue Reading 73. Hubert Goltzius
Pourbus was begotten by a painter father, but in skill he stood before his father. His monuments teach this. The flocks and coloured birds which he painted are alive, [and] they weep together for the painter’s death. Continue Reading 71. Frans Pourbus
This man is noble in skill; this same man is noble by race. He painted bodies of remarkable shape. When he had seen Rome painted in the first light, he soon returned, thinking it disgraceful to yield to Rome. Continue Reading 69. Anthonie Blocklandt
What region is not full of the labour of Maarten the Dutchman, who painted and made so many pictures with his genius? Admiring cities, towers, and sad ruins, you will say that the hands of Daedalus made them. Continue Reading 67. Maarten van Heemskerk
This man painted for a meagre reward, while life remained [to him]. But his pictures have no meagre glory, whose paintings and kitchens we honour after his death. Nor is this surprising. A learned kitchen pleases many. Continue Reading 65. Joachim Beuckelaer
The learned wonder at your colours, your manly strokes, and the great paintings which your hand produced. You were long in body, and made long bodies: Long one, you have shown that great things please you. Continue Reading 63. Pieter Aertsen
Jacob Binck, German painter and sculptor. Binck painted and engraved himself what he imagined in his mind. His skill, hand and mind vie [with one another]. Since your [works] are learnedly expressed, you will be great, if the censor of skill is believed. Continue Reading 61. Jacob Binck
This Aldegrever is not an uneducated Westphalian. He was famous for images of kings and learned men. He painted well the tailor king,1 he who had bound Westphalia with the subtle thread of his genius. Continue Reading 59. Heinrich Aldegrever
An exceptional painter, who was pleasing to great Erasmus. From this, Basel, how much does your praise grow! The Briton, separated from our world, received you, Holbein. Your praise is not contained by one world. Continue Reading 57. Hans Holbein
You too, not equal, but nearest to Dürer, whether you be painting pictures, or sculpting bronze forms which provide marvellous plates for the thin paper, take (if there is any glory in this) a place – not the least important – in our Muse’s work, along with your native Leyden. Continue Reading 55. Lucas van Leyden
