Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10): Michelagnolo to the FlemingsVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10): Michelagnolo to the Flemings
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
This Lambert was the
father of Federigo, of whom, from his being one of our Academicians,
record will be made in the proper place. Pieter Brueghel of Antwerp,
likewise, they celebrate as an excellent master, and Lambert van Noort
of Amersfort in Holland, and as a good architect Gilis Mostaert,
brother of the above-named Franz; and Pieter Pourbus, a mere lad, has
given proof that he is destined to become an excellent painter.
Now, that we may learn something of the miniaturists of those
countries: they say that these have been excellent there, Marinus of
Zierickzee, Lucas Horebout of Ghent, Simon Bening of Bruges, and
Gerard; and likewise some women, Susanna, sister of the said Lucas,
who was invited for that work into the service of Henry VIII, King of
England, and lived there in honour all the rest of her life; Clara
Skeysers of Ghent, who at the age of eighty died, so they say, a
virgin; Anna, daughter of Meister Seghers, a physician; Levina,
daughter of the above-named Meister Simon of Bruges, who was married
by the said Henry of England to a nobleman, and held in estimation by
Queen Mary, even as she is now by Queen Elizabeth; and likewise
Catharina, daughter of Meister Jan van Hemessen, who went to Spain
into the service of the Queen of Hungary, with a good salary. In
short, many other women in those parts have been excellent
miniaturists.
In the work of glass and of making windows there have been many able
men in the same province; Arthus van Noort of Nymwegen, Borghese of
Antwerp, Dierick Jacobsz Vellaert, Dirk van Staren of Kampen, and Jan
Haeck of Antwerp, by whom are the windows in the Chapel of the
Sacrament in the Church of S. Gudule in Brussels. And here in Tuscany
many very beautiful windows of fired glass have been made for the Duke
of Florence by Wouter Crabeth and Giorgio, Flemings and able men, from
the designs of Vasari.
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