He was a painter by nature: having hardly used a master, he was yet not inferior to those outstanding in skill. He painted birds, ships, men, and grass and wild beasts, and, being Florid, countless joyful flowers. Continue Reading 129 Abraham Bloemaert
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.
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
Through all centuries I shall be said to have been the first to have taught by my example the excellent Belgians to be envious of Rome in painting. For he is not worthy of the honour of a true artist, who does not use up a thousand pencils and pigments, and paint pictures in that school. Continue Reading 41. Jan van Scorel
“This man was among the first of the Dutch who learnt to paint with pressed oily seed of flax. We wonder at the faces [and] joyful colours which he painted. Lucas, the flower of painters, frequented this artist.” Continue Reading 25. Cornelius Engebrechtsz
