Marinus van reymerswaele biography of martinez
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List of artists in the Web Gallery of Art (L–Z)
For the first half of this list, see List of artists in the Web Gallery of Art (A–K).
The List of painters in the Web Gallery of Art is a list of the named painters in the Web Gallery of Art (WGA). The online collection contains roughly 34,000 images by 4,000 artists, but only named artists with oil paintings in the database are listed alphabetically here. The painter's name is followed by a title of one of their paintings and its location, which is hosted on the WGA website. For painters with more than one painting in the WGA collection, or for paintings by unnamed or unattributed artists, see the Web Gallery of Art website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons painter category. Of the 2,463 painters in the WGA database, over a quarter are Italians and about a third were born in the 17th century, and they are mostly men. There are only 44 women, including Sofonisba Anguissola, Rosa Bonheur, Artemisia Gentileschi, Catharina van
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Jooris van der Straeten: Habsburg Court Portraitist in Portugal, Spain and France
The Habsburgs: Images and Portraits II, Renaissance kultur of amerika, Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, 22-24 March 2007. Jooris van der Straeten: Habsburg Court Portraitist in Portugal, Spain and France. New Notes and Attributions Jooris van der Straeten, born in Ghent, carved out an international career which spanned several decades (from 1552 to 1574), and several europeisk courts (Portugal, Spain and France). He was fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and French, transforming himself into a versatile courtier, well adapted in Habsburg Spain as he was in Valois France. While other Habsburg court painters, Anthonis Mor and Alonso Sánchez Coello, worked primarily for male courtiers and the king, Philip II of Spain, van der Straeten strategically carved out a niche for himself, working primarily as a portraitist for queens, commissioned to paint his female patrons (Catherine of Austria, Isabel of Valois, Cat
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Medieval Italian people
Dante didn't think much of them, those twelve spoiled rich kids from Siena. He made that abundantly clear in the Inferno. One can almost imagine the great poet sniffing disapprovingly as he looked down that substantial nose of his at the dastardly dozen—wastrels and profligates all.
They were Dante's contemporaries, the members of the notorious Brigata Spendereccia (also sometimes called the Brigata Godereccia, from the verb "godere,” to enjoy). Their reputation persists even today, when critics of certain political initiatives in Tuscany invoke the name as a way of saying "wasteful, careless, irresponsible use of funds."
Who were these young men, and what did they do to live in infamy for the past 700+ years? They are said to have been a group of wealthy young men who pooled their resources—to the tune of 18,000 gold florins apiece. With the resulting fund of 216,000 gold florins (the equivalent of millions of euros today), th