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Abraham Janssen
(b c.1575; bur. Antwerp, 25 Jan. 1632).Flemish figure and portrait painter, active mainly in Antwerp. In 1598 and 1601 he is documented in Rome and by 1602 he was ...
Adolf von Hildebrand
(b Marburg, 6 Oct. 1847; d Munich, 18 Jan. 1921).German sculptor and writer on art. He spent much of his career in Italy and is regarded as one of the main upholders in his period of the classical ...
Bamboccianti
A group of painters in 17th-century Rome who worked in the style of Pieter van Laer (il Bamboccio or ‘clumsy little one’) from whom the name derives. They specialized in bambocciate (the singular is ...
Cerquozzi, Michelangelo Reference library
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(b Rome, 18 Feb. 1602; d Rome, 6 Apr. 1660).
Italian painter, known as ‘Michelangelo of the Battles’ because of his predilection for scenes of combat. He spent all his career in ...
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Cerquozzi, Michelangelo (1602–60) Reference library
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(1602–60).
Italian painter who was active in his native city of Rome. Cerquozzi may have begun his career
Francisco de Holanda
(b Lisbon, 1517; d Lisbon, 19 June 1584).Portuguese draughtsman, miniaturist, painter, architect, and writer on art, the son of a Netherlandish miniaturist, Antonio de Holanda (d1557), who spent part ...
iconology
Closely related to iconography, but whereas that term is essentially descriptive (for example identifying a saint by his or her visual attributes), iconology is more interpretative. It implies an ...
Jacques Courtois
(b St Hippolyte, Franche-Comté, 12 Dec. 1621; d Rome, 14 Nov. 1676) and(b St Hippolyte, 1628; d Rome, 14 June 1679).French painters, brothers, active in Italy and often known by the Italian forms of ...
Josef Heinz
(1564–1609).Swiss painter of Italian descent who travelled to Rome in 1584 where he studied classical artefacts, as well as contemporary artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo. In 1587 he ...
Micco Spadaro
(1609–75?).Italian painter and draughtsman, mainly of genre, religious, and mythological scenes, who made a distinctive contribution to an emerging school of naturalistic Neapolitan landscape. He ...
Pieter van Laer
(bapt. Haarlem, 14 Dec. 1599; d ?c.1642).Dutch painter, active for much of his career (c.1625–38) in Rome. There he was nicknamed ‘Il Bamboccio’ (which may be translated as ‘little clumsy one’ or ...
Rome, Spada Gallery
A fascinating survival of a 17th-century Roman connoisseur's art collection, housed in a magnificent 16th-century palace. Cardinal Bernadino Spada was an ardent art enthusiast and a protégé of Pope ...
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