Jacob Cats
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Jacob Cats was a Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books.
1634 portrait
Landgoed Sorghvliet
Emblem from Cats' Monita amoris virginei (1620)
Adriaen van de Venne
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Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and ver
Jacob Cats
…Leiden in 1734) and of his poems. He became famous in his own lifetime from his moralistic Emblem books, most notably Sinne en Minnebeelden, for which Adrian van der Venne cut the plates. He died on 12 September 1660, and was buried by torchlight, and with great ceremony, in the Kloosterkerk at the Hague. He is still…
Self-portrait engraved by Wenceslas Hollar.
Before a Country Palace
A Dodo (1626)
Woman and a jester. (1630s)