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Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

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Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert was a Netherlandish artist recorded by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as living from 1519 or 1522 in Amsterdam until 1590 in Gouda. Wikipedia describes the same Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert as a Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, theologian and artist, often considered the father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship. The museum holds his etching and engraving Balaam and the Angel, dated 1554, acquired in 2023. The atlas records him as the named maker of that biblical print, which the divinity atlas lists among its sacred images.

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Drawing, Art Forms
Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)
Printmaking, Art Forms
Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)Birth and Death Places
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Born: Amsterdam (North Holland, Netherlands) (inhabited place)
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1. Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (Wikipedia)
Early life and marriage
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Returning home, he was disinherited by his father's will in 1539, for his marriage with Cornelia (Neeltje) Simons, a portionless gentlewoman from Haarlem, whose sister was Anna Simonsdr, the mistress of Reginald (Reinoud), count of Brederode (they were the parents of Lucretia van Brederode).
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Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert (Metropolitan Museum of Art record)
Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)
Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names
  • Practices: Printmaking, Record heading
    Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)
  • Practices: Drawing, Roles
    draftsman
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