Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1615-1652 Related Paintings of ASSELYN, Jan :. | Being English coasts | Rading | Landscape with Erminia and the Shepherds (mk17) | Woodland Scene,Brantrake | Penelope and the Suitors | Related Artists:
Frans Floris de Vriendt c.1517-70, Flemish painter
Hans Jordaens (1555 - 1630), was a Flemish Baroque painter whose religious works are often confused with that of other painters with the same name.
Bartholomeus Spranger1546-1611
Flemish
Bartholomeus Spranger Gallery
Bartholomeus (Bartholomaeus) Spranger (21 March 1546??August 1611) was a Flemish Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was born in Antwerp.
In 1565, he traveled to Paris and Italy after finishing his studies. He worked on wall paintings in various churches. At Rome, Pope Pius V appointed him court painter in 1570. In 1581 he was appointed to the Prague court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Hendrik Goltzius made engravings of his paintings, thus increasing Spranger's fame. Spranger's Mannerist paintings depict nudes in various complex poses.
He died in Prague.
