Maarten van Heemskerck
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Maarten van Heemskerck, also known as 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 adop
Self-portrait detail from his painting of the Colosseum
Portrait of a Lady spinning, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; painted before Heemskerck left for Italy in 1532
Maarten van Heemskerck, "Les ruines de la Casa dei Crescenzi"
Maarten van Heemskerck, "Rome, the Colosseum"
Guild of Saint Luke
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The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honour of the Evangelist Lu
The Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1675. Jan de Bray painted himself second from the left. Surprisingly, fewer such group portraits exist of painters than for other Guild occupations.
Printed invitation to other chambers of rhetoric by the Antwerp Violieren, for a landjuweel event, lasting 19 days, in 1561
Judith Leyster self-portrait at 20, three years before she became the second woman to join the Haarlem Guild in 1633
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c. 1435–1440. 137.5 x 110.8cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This was the classic subject for paintings given to the guilds.