Maarten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most 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 1532–36 in Italy. He produced many designs for engravers, and is especially known for his depictions of the Wonders of the World.
Self-portrait detail from his painting of the Colosseum
Family of Pieter Jan Foppesz; painted before Heemskerck left for Italy in 1532
Maarten van Heemskerck, "Les ruines de la Casa dei Crescenzi"
Maarten van Heemskerck, "Rome, the Colosseum"
Jan van Scorel was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Romanist style who had spent a number of years in Italy, where he thoroughly absorbed the Italian style of painting. His trip to Italy coincided with the brief reign of the only Dutch pope in history, Adrian VI in 1522–23. The pope made him a court painter and superintendent of his collection of antiquities. His stay in Italy lasted from 1518 to 1524 and he also visited Nuremberg, Venice and Jerusalem. Venetian art had an important impact on the development of his style.
Portrait of Jan van Scorel by Antonis Mor (1560)
The dying Cleopatra (c.1522)
Obervellach, St.Martin's church, Frangipani-Altar
Cornelis Aerentsz van der Dussen (c. 1535)