21. Joachim Patinir
That, amongst all of these, no image expressed with more liveliness than your face is to be seen, Joachim, has happened not only because Curtius’ hand cut it into the bronze ([the hand] which does not now fear another rival), but [also] because Dürer, admiring your hand, when you painted fields and huts, once drew your face on a palimpsest with his bronze point. Imitating those lines, Curtius surpassed himself, not to mention all the others. Continue Reading 21. Joachim Patinir
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17. Rogier Van Der Weyden
May your praise not be that you painted many beautiful things, as your age could bear them (although they are worthy that anyone who is a painter in our time wish greatly to look at them, if he be wise – the paintings which forbid the tribunal of Brussels to leave the straight path of Justice are witness [to this]): but rather that your last will is a perpetual remedy for the hunger of the poor from the proceeds of your painting. The former, [itself] already near to death, you left on earth; the latter shines in the sky, as a monument that will not die. Continue Reading 17. Rogier Van Der Weyden
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15. Hieronymus Bosch
What is meant by that astonished eye of yours, Hieronymus Bosch, or that pallor in your face? As if you had seen ghosts, the spectres of Erebus, flittering in front of you. I could believe that the caves of greedy Pluto and the houses of Tartarus lay open to you, seeing as your hand could paint so well whatever the lowest hollows of Avernus contain. Continue Reading 15. Hieronymus Bosch
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9. Hubert Van Eyck
“Hubert, if the praises which our Thalia recently attributed to you along with your deserving brother are not enough, let this [praise] of yours be added, that your brother, as your student, outdid you in ability. That work of yours in Ghent teaches this, which filled Philip with such love of it,4 that he ordered a copy of it to be made by the hand of Coxennius, to be sent to his native Spaniards.” Continue Reading 9. Hubert Van Eyck
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13. Dirck Bouts
You are here too, Theodore. Belgium shall always also raise your hand to the stars with no false praise, while Nature, expressed by your figures, fears you, equal to her in the art of begetting things. Continue Reading 13. Dirck Bouts
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139. Frans Badens
No one was better at adding colours to a painting. You know which is the right colour for images. You are a learned painter. It is much to know colours. You also paint the learned delights of Italy. Continue Reading 139. Frans Badens
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141. Adam Elsheimer
It pleased you to visit Rome from your earliest years. Rome is the school of painters and artists. You were busy painting while examining every single thing in the churches. Among painters your name will be noble. Continue Reading 141. Adam Elsheimer
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143. Isaac Oliver
You who paint images of lively, joyful faces, Oliver – these captivate (our) eyes wonderfully. The bodies which you make – these are expressed in the right colours. Continue Reading 143. Isaac Oliver
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