Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer (
Strasbourg
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, 31 May 1607 - Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver,
etcher
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and
miniature
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* Portrait miniature, a miniature portrait painting
* Miniature art, miniature painting, engraving and sculpture
* Miniature (chess), a masterful chess game or problem ...
painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's '' Metamorphoses''.
Biography
According to Houbraken, he learned to draw and paint from the miniaturist
Friedrich Brentel
Friedrich Brentel (1580–1651) was a German printmaker in engraving and etching, and miniature (illuminated manuscript), miniature painter. He was born in Lauingen and became a citizen of Strasbourg in 1601. His principal work is a set of plates ...
in Strasbourg, before embarking on a Grand Tour to Rome, where he painted for ''Brassiano'', a known patron of the arts. He specialized in watercolors of architectural follies in perspective, and for this reason was often employed to make pictures of gardens. He had the habit of talking when he was concentrating, and was known to have conversations with inanimate objects. In 1634 he broke off a trip to Naples to return to a woman in Rome.Joan Guiliam Bouwer biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by
Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
Karel Škréta
Karel Škréta Šotnovský ze Závořic (1610 – 1674) was a Czech portrait painter who worked in the Baroque style. He lived through the Thirty Years' War which caused him some hardships as a Protestant which led him to leave Prague for Saxony ...
(Carolus Creten) while he was in Rome. Creten was a member of the
Bentvueghels
The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique").
Activities
The members, which included ...
with the nickname ''Slach-sweerd''. The RKD has assigned this nickname ''Slagzwaard'' ( longsword) to Baur himself, who was probably also a member of the Bentvueghels, but whose nickname was not recorded by De Bie.
Many of his drawings of Ovid's stories, the passion of Christ in 24 plates, and scenes of daily life in Rome (with costumes of various nationalities) were engraved by
Melchior Küsel
Melchior Küsel (1626, Augsburg – 1684, Augsburg) was a German engraver.
Life
According to Houbraken he made 24 engravings after Johann Wilhelm Baur of the Passion of Christ but also a series after Ovid.Augsburg. He died in Vienna of a sudden illness while on a commission by Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor.Quote by Houbraken from
Roger de Piles
Roger de Piles (7 October 1635 – 5 April 1709) was a French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat.
Life
Born in Clamecy, Roger de Piles studied philosophy and theology, and devoted himself to painting.
In 1662 he became tutor to Miche ...
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Filippo Baldinucci
Filippo Baldinucci (3 June 1625 – 10 January 1696) was an Italian art historian and biographer.
Life
Baldinucci is considered among the most significant Florentine biographers/historians of the artists and the arts of the Baroque period ...
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Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci
Filippo Baldinucci's ''Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali'' (or ''Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610–1670'') was a major art biography of Baroq ...