Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1611-ca.1690  Related Paintings of Volterrano :. | Portrait of Antonio Baldinucci | The Wine Trick of Parson Arlotto | Sleeping Cupid | Portrait of Cardinal Giovan Carlo de'Medici | Hilas |
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SCHEERE, Herman
German miniaturist , active 1403-1419 in England
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Dirck Bouts
Haarlem ca 1420-Louvain 1475 was an Early Netherlandish painter. According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven (Louvain), where he was city painter from 1468. Van Mander confused the issue by writing biographies of both "Dieric of Haarlem" and "Dieric of Leuven," although he was referring to the same artist. The similarity of their last names also led to the confusion of Bouts with Hubrecht Stuerbout, a prominent sculptor in Leuven. Very little is actually known about Bouts' early life, but he was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. He is first documented in Leuven in 1457 and worked there until his death in 1475. Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point