Architects - Picturing the Netherlandish Canon

Architects (as described in the texts that frame the portraits) in the Hendrick Hondius’s 1610 Pictorum.

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43. Lambert Lombard

Engraving, second state
Signed 'Hh ex.' by Hendrick Hondius
Copy in same direction as Cock 1572 engraved Pictorum

20.1 x 11.9 cm

Transcription of Inscription [Lampsonius]:

LAMBERTO LOMBARDO, LEODIENSIS PICTORI. ET ARCHITECTO.
Elogium, ex merito quod te, Lombarde, decebat,
Non libet hîc paucis texere versiculis :
Continet hoc ea charta (legi si nostra merentur)
De te quam fecit Λαμψονίοτε γραφίς

Translation of Inscription [Lampsonius]:

To Lambert Lombard of Liège, painter and architect
It does not please [me], Lombard, to write here in a few verses an epigraph which would be suitable to your merits. Those pages contain it which (if our works deserve to be read) the Lampsonian pen¹ wrote about you.

Hollstein 1994 no. 99

Karel Van Mander's biography of Lambert Lombard
Grove Art Online biography

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Artist Tags: 1610 Hondius Pictorum, Architects (as described in the texts that frame the portraits), Artists with tools of their trade (not including sheet or rolls of paper), In both - prints of subjects from the 1572 Pictorum, Pictor, Prints in Part One, Vocative

95. Michiel Coxcie

Etching and engraving
Signed 'Hh exc.' by Hendrick Hondius, attributed to Simon Frisius
20.4 x 12.4 cm

Transcription of Inscription:

MICHAEL COEXIUS, MECHLINIENS. PICTOR.
Coexius illustris pictor, Mechlinia cujus
Patria, doctorum quae fuit artificum.
Hic magno pinxit. nam Zeuxis creditur esse :
Carus divitibus, principibúsque Viris.

Translation of Inscription:

Michiel Coxie of Mechelen, painter
Coxie was an illustrious painter, whose fatherland was Mechelen, which was that of learned artists.² He painted for a great price. For he was believed to be Zeuxis,³ [and] was dear to the rich and to princely men.

Orenstein 1996, Frisius no. 142; Hollstein 2008 no.162

Karel Van Mander's biography of Michiel Coxie
Grove Art Online biography

Artist Tags: 1610 Hondius Pictorum, Architects (as described in the texts that frame the portraits), Artists with tools of their trade (not including sheet or rolls of paper), Described as 'learned', Explicitly described as painters in the verse, Mechelen, Only in the Hondius Pictorum, Pictor, Prints in Part Two, Third person

Footnotes:

This for the Greek Λαμψονίοτε γραφίς. Λαμψονίοτε is apparently the author’s attempt to invent a Greek adjective based on his name. However, the form is bad Greek (better would be Λαμψονιοτὴ) and neither the author’s form nor mine will help the metre. The work by Lampsonius’s pen referred to is his biography of Lambert Lombard: Lamberti Lombardi apud Eburiones pictoris celeberrimi vita, Bruges, 1565.
If this is obscure, one could translate "which was [the fatherland] of learned artists".
As was 119. Michael van Mierevelt.