Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe; "the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century".
He was also a notable art collector, the "greatest private collector of his time, the friend and patron of Titian and Leoni and many other artists".
Portrait by Willem Key
Granvelle, portrait by Frans Floris
Medal of the cardinal by Jacques Jonghelinck
Tomb in Mechelen Cathedral
Franche-Comté is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône and the Territoire de Belfort. In 2021, its population was 1,179,601.
Landscape, Franche-Comté
Besançon
La Petite Montagne, a view from Molard de la Justice
View of Broissia, a commune in the Jura department