Anthonis van den Wyngaerde
Overview page. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) — Renaissance Art.
(c.1525–1571),
Flemish painter, draughtsman, and etcher who travelled throughout the Netherlands and in England, France, Italy, and Spain. In the course of his travels he made many...
Augsburg
Overview page. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) — Renaissance Art.
(city, bishopric) Attested since the 8th century on the site of Roman Augusta Vindelicorum. A document of 1156 confirms the bishop’s lordship, conditioned by the citizens’ community. An...
Château d' Anet
Overview page. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) — Renaissance Art.
A Renaissance chateau some 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of Paris. It was built between 1546 and 1552 by Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers. The house and ...
château of Chambord
Overview page. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) — Renaissance Art.
A royal chateau on the left bank of the Cosson, a tributary of the Loire. The chateau was commissioned by Francis I and construction began in 1519 on the site ...
Cornelius Bos
Overview page. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) — Renaissance Art.
(c.1510–c.1566),
Netherlandish engraver. He was born in 's-Hertogenbosch (Brabant) and seems to have studied in Rome in the studio of Marcantonio Raimondi. He was settled in...
Domenico da Cortona
Overview page. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) — Renaissance Art.
(c.1470–c.1549),
Italian architect and woodcarver who moved to France in 1495 at the invitation of King Charles VIII. He was probably the designer of the wooden model (now known...
Dumonstier
Overview page. Subjects: Renaissance Art — Early Modern History (1500 to 1700).
Family of French artists, active in various fields but mainly as portrait painters. About a dozen members of the family are recorded and several of them held court appointments. The ...
null...Erhard Reuwich
Overview page. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700) — Renaissance Art.
(c.1455–c.1490), Dutch engraver, born in Utrecht. In 1483 he accompanied Canon Bernhard von Breydenbach (chamberlain to the archbishop of Mainz), Graaf Johann zu Solms-Lich, and the Ritter...
Francesco Terzi
Overview page. Subjects: Renaissance Art — Early Modern History (1500 to 1700).
(c.1523–1591),
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was born in Bergamo and as a young man painted a large Crucifixion in the Church of SS Bartolomeo e Stefano in Lallo (near ...
null...Hans Schwarz
Overview page. Subjects: Renaissance Art — Early Modern History (1500 to 1700).
(c.1492–c.1522), German medallist and sculptor, born in Augsburg. He was the first German exponent of the portrait medal, an art that had been revived in Italy; the faces of Schwarz's...