Difuria, â€å“self-fashioning and Ruination in a Print Series by Maerten Van Heemskerck

Maerten van Heemskerck
Self-portrait detail from his painting of the Colosseum
Born	Maerten Jacobsz ane June 1498 Heemskerk
Died	1 October 1574(1574-10-01) (anile 76) Haarlem
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	Painting
Move	Mannerism
Patron(s)	Cornelis Muys, Haarlem council, Delft Quango

Maerten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen (1 June 1498 – one October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent about of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style. He spent the years 1532–6 in Italy. He produced many designs for engravers, and is especially known for his depictions of the Wonders of the Earth.

Biography [edit]

Early life [edit]

Family of Pieter Jan Foppesz; painted earlier Heemskerck left for Italy in 1532

Heemskerck was built-in in the hamlet of Heemskerk, N Holland, halfway between Alkmaar and Haarlem. He was the son of a farmer called Jacob Willemsz. van Veen. Co-ordinate to his biography by Karel van Mander, he began his creative grooming with the painter Cornelius Willemsz in Haarlem, but was recalled to Heemskerk by his father to work on the family unit farm. Withal, having contrived an argument with his father he left over again, this time for Delft, where he studied under Jan Lucasz, before moving on to Haarlem, where he became a pupil of Jan van Scorel, learning to pigment in his instructor's innovative Italian-influenced style.^[1]

Heemskerck then went to lodge at the home of the wealthy curate of the Sint-Bavokerk, Pieter Jan Foppesz (whose proper noun van Mander writes as Pieter Ian Fopsen). They knew each other because Foppesz endemic country in Heemskerk. The artist painted him in a now famous family portrait, considered the first of its kind in a long line of Dutch family paintings.^[2] His other works for Foppesz included two life size figures symbolising the Sun and the Moon on a bedstead, and a pic of Adam and Eve "rather smaller but (it is said) after living models".^[1] His next home was in the business firm of a goldsmith, Justus Cornelisz, on the edge of Haarlem.^[1]

Before setting off for Italy on a One thousand Tour in 1532, Heemskerck painted a scene of St. Luke painting the Virgin for the altar of St. Luke in the Bavokerk. An inscription, incorporated into a trompe-l'œil characterization on the painting begins "This picture is a remembrance from its painter, Marten Heemskerck; he has here dedicated his labours to St Luke as a proof of regard to his associates in his profession, of which that saint is patron".^{[1] [3]}

Italy [edit]

He travelled around the whole of northern and cardinal Italy, stopping at Rome, where he had letters of introduction from van Scorel to the influential Dutch cardinal^[4] William of Enckenvoirt.

It is axiomatic of the facility with which he caused the rapid execution of a scene-painter that he was selected to collaborate with Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Battista Franco and Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati) on the redecoration of the Porta San Sebastiano at Rome as a triumphal curvation (five April 1536) in accolade of Charles V.^[four] Giorgio Vasari, who saw the battle-pieces which Heemskerk then produced, said they were well composed and boldly executed.

While in Rome where he made numerous drawings of classical sculpture and architecture, many of which survive in two sketchbooks at present in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin. He was to utilise them as source cloth throughout the balance of his career.^[5] Among these are the Capitoline Brutus, van Heemskerck being the first known artist to make a sketch of this at present famous bust.

Later career [edit]

On his return to the Netherlands in 1536, he settled back at Haarlem, where he became president of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke (in 1540),^[4] married twice (his kickoff wife and child died during childbirth), and secured a large and lucrative practice.^[4]

The alteration in his style, brought about by his experience of Italy was not universally admired. According to van Mander, "in the opinion of some of the best judges he had not improved it, except in 1 particular, that his outline was more graceful than earlier".^[i]

He painted large altarpieces for his friend, the fine art maecenas and after catholic martyr of the Protestant Reformation, Cornelis Muys [nl] (besides known every bit Musius). Muys had returned from a menstruum in France to kingdom of the netherlands in 1538 and became prior of the St. Agatha curtilage in Delft (later on became the Prinsenhof).^[6] This lucrative and high-profile piece of work in Delft earned Heemskerck a commission for an altarpiece in the Nieuwe Kerk (Delft) for their Guild of St. Luke. In 1553 he became curate of the Sint-Bavokerk, where he served for 22 years (until the Protestant reformation). In 1572 he left Haarlem for Amsterdam, to avoid the siege of Haarlem which the Spaniards laid to the place.^[4]

Engravings [edit]

He was 1 of the first Netherlandish artists to make drawings specifically for reproduction by commercial printmakers. He employed a technique incorporating cross-hatching and stippling, intended to aid the engraver.^[5]

Maarten van Heemskerck, "Les ruines de la Casa dei Crescenzi"

Wonders of the World [edit]

Heemskerck produced designs for a gear up of engravings, showing eight, rather than the usual vii wonders of the ancient earth. His addition to the conventional list was the Colosseum in Rome, which, unlike the others, he showed in ruins, equally it was in his own time, with the speculative improver of a giant statue of Jupiter in the centre.^[7] They were engraved past Philip Galle and published in 1572.^[8]

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Paintings [edit]

Detail of Ecce Homo Altarpiece (1544), National Museum, Warsaw. Exaggerated expressions and robust musculature created with relatively little pigment are prime characteristics of Heemskerck's manner.^[ten]

Painting by van Heemskerck depicting the abduction of Helen, queen of the Greek urban center-state Sparta, by Paris.^[eleven] The Walters Art Museum

Many works by van Heemskerck survive. Adam and Eve and St. Luke painting the Likeness of the Virgin and Child in presence of a poet crowned with ivy leaves, and a parrot in a muzzle – an altar-slice in the gallery of Haarlem, and the Ecce Homo in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, are feature works of the period preceding van Heemskerck'due south visit to Italy.^[iv] An altar-piece executed for the St. Laurence Church building of Alkmaar in 1539–1543, composed of at least a dozen large panels, which including portraits of historical figures, preserved in Linköping Cathedral, Sweden since the Reformation, shows his style after his return from Italy.^[4]

He painted a crucifixion for the Riches Claires at Ghent (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent) in 1543, and an altar-piece for the Drapers' Visitor at Haarlem, finished in 1546 and now in the gallery of the Hague.^[four] They show how Heemskerck studied and repeated the forms which he had seen in the works of Michelangelo and Raphael at Rome, and in the frescoes of Andrea Mantegna and Giulio Romano in Lombardy, but he never forgot his Dutch origin or the models first presented to him by Scorel and Jan Mabuse.^[4]

In 1550, Heemskerck painted a large, at present dismembered triptych, the remains of which are today divided between the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Adam and Eve/Gideon and the Fleece), and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (The Visitation). As late every bit 1551, he then produced a copy from Raphael's Madonna of Loreto ^[iv] (Frans Hals Museum). In 1552, he painted a view of a bull race inside the Colosseum of Rome (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille). A Judgment of Momus, dated 1561, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, shows that he was well acquainted with anatomy and fond of florid architecture.^[4] Two altar-pieces which he finished for churches at Delft in 1551 and 1559, one complete (St. Luke painting the Virgin), the other a fragment, in the museum of Haarlem, a tertiary of 1551 in the Brussels Museum, representing Golgotha, the Crucifixion, the Flight into Arab republic of egypt, Christ on the Mount, and scenes from the lives of St. Bernard and St. Benedict, are all adequately representative of his way.^[four]

In that location is a Crucifixion in the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, and two Triumphs of Silenus in the gallery of Vienna. Other pieces of varying importance are in the galleries of Rotterdam, Munich, Cassel, Brunswick, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Copenhagen,^[4] Strasbourg and Rennes.

Parrots [edit]

Heemskerck painted this first altarpiece before he left Haarlem for Italy in 1532. It was cutting down and sawn in two, and has since been rejoined, but is notwithstanding short. The parrot was at the top.^[12]

Heemskerck painted this second altarpiece after he returned from Italia in 1538-40 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes). In this painting, the parrot is held by the infant Jesus.

In his depiction of Saint Luke painting the Virgin, which Heemskerck painted twice for two painter's guilds, there is some confusion in the literature about a parrot. In both paintings he painted a parrot, but the parrot in a cage has been sawn off the first painting and is no longer visible.^[12]

Death [edit]

In Amsterdam he made a volition, which has been preserved. It shows that he had lived long enough and prosperously enough to make a fortune. At his death, he left coin and state in trust to the orphanage of Haarlem, with involvement to be paid yearly to whatsoever couple who should be willing to perform the marriage ceremony on the slab of his tomb in the cathedral of Haarlem. It was a superstition in Catholic Holland that a marriage so celebrated would secure the peace of the dead within the tomb.

Reputation [edit]

Heemskerck was widely respected in his own lifetime and was a potent influence on the painters of Haarlem in particular. He is known (along with his teacher Jan van Scorel) for his introduction of Italian art to the Northern Netherlands, peculiarly for his series on the wonders of the world, that were subsequently spread as prints. Karel van Mander devoted 6 pages to his biography in his Schilder-boeck.

Public collections [edit]

• Courtauld Constitute of Art^[thirteen]
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam^[14]
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa^[15]
• National Gallery, London^[sixteen]
• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam^[17]
• University of Michigan Museum of Art^[xviii]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d east} van Mander, Karl; Kerrich, Thomas (translation) (1829). "The Life of Martin Heemskerck". A Catalogue of the Prints which accept been Engraved after Martin Heemskerck. London: J. Rodwell. . Translated from a biography in Het Schilder-boeck, Haarlem, 2020 (bachelor as a Dutch online text from the DBNL; a more modern translation is in The Lives of the Netherlandish and German language Painters, H. Miedema, ed. 1994-9)
2. ^ retrieved July 2009 Families in beeld, - Frauke K. Laarmann, Families in beeld: De ontwikkeling van het Noord-Nederlandse familieportret in de eerste helft van de zeventiende eeuw. Hilversum,2002, Verloren, ISBN 978-90-6550-186-8
3. ^ "Ter eeren Southward. Lucas heeft hy't bedreven/Dus ghemeen ghesellen heeft hy mede bedacht."
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f m h i j 1000 fifty m} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Heemskerk, Martin Jacobsz". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. xiii (11th ed.). Cambridge University Printing. p. 199.
5. ^ ^{a b} Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century Eighteenth Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Drove: Central Europe. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 133.
6. ^ Cornelis Musius in NL Wikipedia
7. ^ Kerrich 1829, p.105
8. ^ "The eight wonders of the world". British Museum.
9. ^ AdSummus, for Art History with Michelli. "Hanging Gardens—Images". plinia.net.
10. ^ "Heemskerck's Style and Technique". Drama and Devotion: Heemskerck'due south "Ecce Human" Altarpiece from Warsaw . Retrieved 23 July 2012.
11. ^ "Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amongst the Wonders of the Aboriginal Earth". The Walters Art Museum.
12. ^ ^{a b} Het Schilderboek: Het Leven Van De Doorluchtige Nederlandse En Hoogduitse Schilders. Carel van Mander, with notes, 1995. ISBN 90-284-1678-one. ISBN 978-90-284-1678-nine
13. ^ "Heemskerck, Mary Magdalene". The Courtauld Institute of Art . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
14. ^ "Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen". boijmans.nl.
15. ^ "Loading... | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
16. ^ "Marten van Heemskerck | The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist | NG6508.1 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk . Retrieved 22 April 2021.
17. ^ "Search - Rijksmuseum". Rijksmuseum.
18. ^ "Exchange: The Resurrection". substitution.umma.umich.edu . Retrieved 22 April 2021.

Sources [edit]

• Kerrich, Thomas (1829). A Catalogue of the Prints which accept been Engraved afterward Martin Heemskerck. London: J. Rodwell. Includes an English translation of van Mander's biography of Heemskerck.

Further reading [edit]

• Tatjana Bartsch, Maarten van Heemskerck. Römische Studien zwischen Sachlichkeit und Imagination. (München: Hirmer 2019) (Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana Bd. 44).
• Arthur J. DiFuria, Maarten van Heemskerck's Rome: Antiquity, Retentiveness, and the Cult of Ruins. (Leiden: Brill 2019).
• Marco Folin - Monica Preti, Les villes détruites de Maarten van Heemskerck. Images de ruines et conflits religieux dans les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle, (Paris: Institut national d'histoire de fifty'art, 2015).
• Tatjana Bartsch - Peter Seiler (ed.), Rom zeichnen. Maarten van Heemskerck 1532–1536/37. (Berlin: Isle of man 2012) (humboldt-schriften zur kunst- und bildgeschichte, 8).
• Tatjana Bartsch, "Maarten van Heemskercks Zeichnung des 'Brutus' und seine Verbindung zu Kardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi," Agnes Schwarzmaier (ed.), Der 'Brutus' vom Kapitol: Ein Porträt macht Weltgeschichte. (München: Ed. Minerva, 2010) (exh.-cat. Berlin), 81–89.
• Arthur J. DiFuria, "Maerten van Heemskerck's Collection Imagery in the Netherlandish Pictorial Retentiveness," Intellectual History Review, 20, 2010 - Outcome ane, 27–51.
• Arthur J. DiFuria, "Remembering the Eternal: Maerten van Heemskerck's Self-Portrait Earlier the Colosseum," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaerboek. 59(one), 2009, 90-108.
• Tatjana Bartsch, "Transformierte Transformation. Zur 'fortuna' der Antikenstudien Maarten van Heemskercks im 17. Jahrhundert," Ernst Osterkamp (ed.), Wissensästhetik: Wissen über dice Antike in aesthetischer Vermittlung (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008) (Transformationen der Antike, vi), 113–159.
• Tatjana Bartsch, "Kapitell. Colosseum. Überlegungen zu Heemskercks Bildfindungen am Beispiel von fol. 28 r. des römischen Skizzenbuches," Kathrin Schade e.a. (ed.), Zentren und Wirkungsräume der Antikenrezeption. (Münster: Scriptorium, 2007), 27–38.
• Erik Zevenhuizen - Piet de Boer (ed.), Maerten van Heemskerck, 1498 - 1574: 'constigh vermaert schilder' (Heemskerk: Historische Kring Heemskerk, 1998).
• Ilja Veldman, Maarten van Heemskerck. (Roosendaal: Koninklijke Van Poll, 1993-1994) (The new Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1, 2).
• Jefferson Cabell Harrison Jr., The Paintings of Maerten van Heemskerck – a Catalogue Raisonné. (Charlottesville/Va., University of Virginia, Phil. Diss., 1987).
• Rainald Grosshans, Maerten van Heemskerck. Die Gemälde. (Berlin: Boettcher, 1980).
• Ilja Veldman (Michael Hoyle, trans.), Maarten Van Heemskerck and Dutch Humanism in the Sixteenth Century. (Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, 1977).

External links [edit]

• Entry on Maarten van Heemskerck in the RKD Artist database
• Works by Maarten van Heemskerck in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Literature on Marten van Heemskerk
• A catalogue of the prints which have been engraved afterward Martin Heemskerck
• Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition itemize from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes textile on Maarten van Heemskerck (see index)
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, a total text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, which includes textile on Maarten van Heemskerck (see index)
• Prints after Maarten van Heemskerck in Dresden's Kupferstich-Kabinett

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