Documents indicate that Willem Claesz Heda was born in Haarlem on December 14, 1594. This evidence is supported by an inscription designating his age—“aetate 84�—found on a 1678 portrait of Heda by the Haarlem painter Bray, Jan de .
Edited by William B. Jordan. Translated by P.M. van Tongeren. Exh. cat.
Idol-Phobia in the Spanish Empire: Translating the Sacred at the Escorial Marius B.
upper center in black marker: 49 x 39,5; upper center in blue-black ink: BRASSA� / P.
London, 1968: 1:401. 1972 Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri.
Bernardo (Archivio di Stato, Florence, Compagnie Religiose Soppresse in Arezzo, B.
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Pictures in the collection of P. A. B.
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) wears the red biretta and cape of a cardinal. At the time Titian painted this portrait, Bembo had recently been elevated to that status in honor of his service to the Church and his scholarly career, although the writer’s literary output was almost entirely secular.
the painting is recorded in a 1730 inventory of Cardinal Francesco II Barberini (p.
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child / no work / Haunted House; bottom center: photo. 10.27.00; bottom right: ca/p
National Gallery, London, 1999: p.234, 235 (repro.).
