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Balthasar Lauwers, known in Italy as Baldassare Lauri or Baldassare Lauro (
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Filippo Baldinucci, Domenico Maria Manni, ''Opere di Filippo Baldinucci: Notizie de'professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua''
Società tipografica de'Classici italiani, 1812, p. 288-289 As he was mainly active as a fresco painter in private residences, not many of his works have been preserved.
Antwerp, 1872–1876, p. 450
Lauwers left Antwerp and travelled via Milan and Venice to Rome. His arrival in Italy must be placed around 1600 when he was still in his early twenties. In Rome, he was a pupil of, and later worked as an assistant to, the prominent Flemish landscape painter Paul Bril who had established himself in Rome around 1582. Thanks to Paul Bril's connections in Rome, Lauwers was able to secure various commissions.
Prior to 1603, Balthasar Lauwers married Hélène (Elena) Cousin, daughter of Henri Cousin, a goldsmith from Paris and scion of a prominent family of French goldsmiths and artists, including two painters of the School of Fontainebleau.
In 1622 he joined the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1634 Lauwers went to Milan to work on commissions. According to the early Italian art historian
Balthasar Lauwers was principally active as a landscape painter. He worked on canvas and copper and also produced many frescos in palaces.
Balthasar Lauwers is known for his landscapes depicting coastal and river landscapes populated with contemporary figures and hunting scenes. This is why he is sometimes also referred to as a marine painter. Lauwers is also described in Italian sources as a ''quadraturista'', i.e. a painter of architectural illusions on walls to "open them up" or Italian ceiling paintings.''Napoli scontraffatta (ieri e oggi)'', Giovanni Artieri A. Mondadori, 1984, p. 558 He is known to have provided wall decorations in many palaces.
His style is regarded as close to that of Paul Bril, his master in Rome. He collaborated on decorative projects with Paul Bril and Agostino Tassi.
Balthasar Lauwers, known in Italy as Baldassare Lauri or Baldassare Lauro (Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
, baptized on 18 April 1578 - Rome, 4 August 1645) was a Flemish landscape painter who, after initially training in Antwerp, had a successful career in Italy where he worked for an elite clientele.Balthasar Lauwersat the Netherlands Institute for Art History Filippo Baldinucci, Domenico Maria Manni, ''Opere di Filippo Baldinucci: Notizie de'professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua''
Società tipografica de'Classici italiani, 1812, p. 288-289 As he was mainly active as a fresco painter in private residences, not many of his works have been preserved.
Life
Balthasar Lauwers was baptized on 18 April 1578 inAntwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
. He was enrolled in 1590 under the name Balten Lauwers at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Francoys Borsse, a painter.Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (ed.), ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde van 1453–1615''Antwerp, 1872–1876, p. 450
Lauwers left Antwerp and travelled via Milan and Venice to Rome. His arrival in Italy must be placed around 1600 when he was still in his early twenties. In Rome, he was a pupil of, and later worked as an assistant to, the prominent Flemish landscape painter Paul Bril who had established himself in Rome around 1582. Thanks to Paul Bril's connections in Rome, Lauwers was able to secure various commissions.
Prior to 1603, Balthasar Lauwers married Hélène (Elena) Cousin, daughter of Henri Cousin, a goldsmith from Paris and scion of a prominent family of French goldsmiths and artists, including two painters of the School of Fontainebleau.
In 1622 he joined the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1634 Lauwers went to Milan to work on commissions. According to the early Italian art historian Filippo Baldinucci
Filippo Baldinucci (3 June 1625 – 10 January 1696) was an Italian art historian and biographer.
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Baldinucci is considered among the most significant Florentine biographers/historians of the artists and the arts of the Baroque period ...
, Lauwers was invited to Milan by Cardinal Albornoz who was then the Governor of Milan. He painted in the Ducal Palace in Milan frescos of landscapes in certain porticos. Lauwers received a monthly stipend from the Cardinal as long as the Cardinal remained the governor of Milan. Lauwers returned to Rome soon where he continued to be active as a landscape painter. He made many frescos for the Sacchetti family
The Sacchetti family is an Italian noble family originating in Tuscany, now resident in Rome, whose earliest documented member Merlo lived during the late 10th and early 11th centuries. The name of the family is derived from one or more members k ...
, in particular in their palace in Ostia
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*Ostia Antica, a township and port of ancient Rome
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. He also worked for other prominent personalities of the Roman aristocracy and higher church hierarchy.
The painter Angelo Caroselli, who had become a widower, married in 1642 his daughter Brigitta Lauwers (Lauri). Lauwers trained his two sons Francesco Lauri
Francesco Lauri (1610–1635) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome, but also throughout other parts of eastern and northern Italy and some of France, Spain and Greece.
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He was the oldest son of the Fl ...
and Filippo Lauri
Filippo Lauri (25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.
''Miracle of St Vincent Ferrer''
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in the art of painting. Filippo further studied with his brother Francesco and his brother-in-law Angelo Caroselli. Aside from his sons, the architectural painter François de Nomé
''Santi Severino e Sossio'' in Napoles
François de Nomé (1593 – after 1620) was a French painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Naples.
Biography
Born in Metz in the Lorraine region in 1593, de Nomé had moved to Rome by 1602 wh ...
was also a pupil of Balthasar Lauwers.''Franc̦ois de Nomé: Mysteries of a Seventeenth-century Neapolitan Painter'', Menil Collection, 1991, p. 20
Lauwers died on 4 August 1645 in Rome.Work
Balthasar Lauwers was principally active as a landscape painter. He worked on canvas and copper and also produced many frescos in palaces.
Balthasar Lauwers is known for his landscapes depicting coastal and river landscapes populated with contemporary figures and hunting scenes. This is why he is sometimes also referred to as a marine painter. Lauwers is also described in Italian sources as a ''quadraturista'', i.e. a painter of architectural illusions on walls to "open them up" or Italian ceiling paintings.''Napoli scontraffatta (ieri e oggi)'', Giovanni Artieri A. Mondadori, 1984, p. 558 He is known to have provided wall decorations in many palaces.
His style is regarded as close to that of Paul Bril, his master in Rome. He collaborated on decorative projects with Paul Bril and Agostino Tassi.References
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* {{ACArt 1578 births 1645 deaths Flemish landscape painters Flemish Baroque painters Painters from Antwerp