Wealth, fame, honour (if great offices are to be sought) – everything answered to your wishes, Mor. The emperor honoured you, and the great successor of the emperor. It is much for you to have pleased these princely men. Continue Reading 79. Anthonis Mor
The home of painters, Mechelen, which outdoes other cities in skill and splendour, gave this Bol. Although fields and lakes are traced in watery colour, still they do not depart like flowing water. Continue Reading 77. Hans Bol
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
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
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
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
If, Floris you had acquired for yourself as much skill as you had natural ability as a painter (since you preferred to paint many things than to paint a lot, and neither the just delay of the file nor hard work pleased you) – I would cry out ‘yield painters from all lands, whom either our grandfathers or our fathers produced’. Continue Reading 51. Frans Floris
