Dirck Barendsz | |
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 Portrait of Dirck Barendsz byCornelis Ketel | |
| Born | 1534 |
| Died | 1592 (aged 57–58) |
| Parent | Barend Dircksz |
Dirck Barendsz orTheodor Barendszoon (1534–1592) was a DutchRenaissancepainter fromAmsterdam who traveled to Italy in his youth to learn from the Italian masters, most notablyTitian.
He was trained by his father, a painter known asBarend Dircksz, ordeaf Barent,[1] and in 1555, at the age of twenty-one, Barendsz travelled toItaly. During his seven-year stay there,Karel van Mander tells us that he was "nursed at the great Titian's bosem."[2][3]
He was a great friend ofPhilip Van Marnix, whom he met inRome, andDominicus Lampsonius, with whom he corresponded in Latin.[1] He was a good musician and his most notable work, among various other pieces Van Mander describes that he painted in Amsterdam, was a Judith.[1] Among pieces worthy of mention in Leiden that Van Mander liked was a Venus that at the time he was writing in 1604 was in the possession of Sybrandt Buyck (son of the last Catholic mayor of Amsterdam, Joost Sijbrantsz Buyck). Van Mander further lists severalTafels (altarpieces), including a "Christmas piece" in the possession of the Fraterhouse in Gouda, and a copy of atronie by Titian, in the possession ofPieter Isaacsz (1569–1625), an Amsterdam painter and art dealer. The "Christmas piece" is still in Gouda and is the only complete surviving altarpiece by him.[4]
His chapel piece for the Amsterdam militia, called aFall of Lucifer by Mander, was destroyed in theBeeldenstorm, but his militia portrait for the same group that hung in their meeting hall survived.He died in Amsterdam.
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