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Maarten van Heemskerck or ''Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen'' (1 June 1498 - 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in
Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
. He was a pupil of
Jan van Scorel Jan van Scorel (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Ro ...
, and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style. He spent the years 1532–6 in Italy. He produced many designs for engravers, and is especially known for his depictions of the
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.


Biography


Early life

Heemskerck was born in the village of
Heemskerk Heemskerk () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located in the Kennemerland region. Local government As of March 2022, the municipal council of Heemskerk consists of 25 seats, which are divide ...
,
North Holland North Holland ( nl, Noord-Holland, ) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In November 2019, it had a ...
, halfway between
Alkmaar Alkmaar () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland, about 30 km north of Amsterdam. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional cheese market. For tourists, it is a popular cultural destination. The ...
and
Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
. He was the son of a farmer called Jacob Willemsz. van Veen. According to his biography by
Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembe ...
, he began his artistic training with the painter Cornelius Willemsz in
Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
, but was recalled to Heemskerk by his father to work on the family farm. However, having contrived an argument with his father he left again, this time for Delft, where he studied under
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, before moving on to Haarlem, where he became a pupil of
Jan van Scorel Jan van Scorel (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Ro ...
, learning to paint in his teacher's innovative Italian-influenced style.. Translated from a biography in ''Het Schilder-boeck'', Haarlem, 2020 (available as
Dutch online text from the DBNL
a more modern translation is in ''The Lives of the Netherlandish and German Painters'', H. Miedema, ed. 1994-9)
Heemskerck then went to lodge at the home of the wealthy curate of the Sint-Bavokerk, Pieter Jan Foppesz (whose name van Mander writes as Pieter Ian Fopsen). They knew each other because Foppesz owned land in Heemskerk. The artist painted him in a now famous family portrait, considered the first of its kind in a long line of Dutch family paintings. His other works for Foppesz included two life size figures symbolising the Sun and the Moon on a bedstead, and a picture of
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"rather smaller but (it is said) after living models". His next home was in the house of a goldsmith, Justus Cornelisz, on the edge of Haarlem. Before setting off for Italy on a
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in 1532, Heemskerck painted a scene of St. Luke painting the Virgin for the altar of St. Luke in the Bavokerk. An inscription, incorporated into a ''
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'' label on the painting begins "This picture is a remembrance from its painter, Marten Heemskerck; he has here dedicated his labours to St Luke as a proof of regard to his associates in his profession, of which that saint is patron".


Italy

He travelled around the whole of northern and central Italy, stopping at Rome, where he had letters of introduction from van Scorel to the influential Dutch cardinal
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. It is evident of the facility with which he acquired the rapid execution of a scene-painter that he was selected to collaborate with
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and
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on the redecoration of the
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at
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as a triumphal arch (5 April 1536) in honour of
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.
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, who saw the battle-pieces which Heemskerk then produced, said they were well composed and boldly executed. While in Rome where he made numerous drawings of classical sculpture and architecture, many of which survive in two sketchbooks now in the
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin The Kupferstichkabinett, or Museum of Prints and Drawings, is a prints museum in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Berlin State Museums, and is located in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz. It is the largest museum of graphic art in Germany, ...
. He was to use them as source material throughout the rest of his career. Among these are the
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, van Heemskerck being the first known artist to make a sketch of this now famous bust.


Later career

On his return to the
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in 1536, he settled back at Haarlem, where he became president of the
Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius. History During the lifetime of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, there was probably a ...
(in 1540), married twice (his first wife and child died during childbirth), and secured a large and lucrative practice. The alteration in his style, brought about by his experience of Italy was not universally admired. According to van Mander, "in the opinion of some of the best judges he had not improved it, except in one particular, that his outline was more graceful than before". He painted large altarpieces for his friend, the art maecenas and later catholic martyr of the
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, (also known as ''Musius''). Muys had returned from a period in France to the Netherlands in 1538 and became prior of the St. Agatha cloister in Delft (later became the
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). This lucrative and high-profile work in Delft earned Heemskerck a commission for an altarpiece in the
Nieuwe Kerk (Delft) The Nieuwe Kerk (; en, New Church) is a Protestant church in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. The building is located on Delft Market Square (Markt), opposite to the City Hall (Dutch: ''Stadhuis''). In 1584, William the Silent was entombed ...
for their
Guild of St. Luke 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 honor of the Four Evangelists, Evangelist Saint Luke, Luke, the patron sa ...
. In 1553 he became curate of the
Sint-Bavokerk The Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk is a Reformed tradition, Reformed Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located on the central market square (Grote Markt (Haarlem), Grote Markt) in the Netherlands, Dutch city of Haarlem. Another Haarlem c ...
, where he served for 22 years (until the
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). In 1572 he left Haarlem for
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, to avoid the
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which the Spaniards laid to the place.


Engravings

He was one of the first Netherlandish artists to make drawings specifically for reproduction by commercial printmakers. He employed a technique incorporating cross-hatching and stippling, intended to aid the engraver.


Wonders of the World

Heemskerck produced designs for a set of engravings, showing eight, rather than the usual seven wonders of the ancient world. His addition to the conventional list was the Colosseum in Rome, which, unlike the others, he showed in ruins, as it was in his own time, with the speculative addition of a giant statue of Jupiter in the centre. They were engraved by
Philip Galle Philip (or Philips) Galle (1537 – March 1612) was a Dutch publisher, best known for publishing old master prints, which he also produced as designer and engraver. He is especially known for his reproductive engravings of paintings. Life Gall ...
and published in 1572. File:Colossus of Rhodes.jpg, ''
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'', imagined in a 16th-century engraving by
Martin Heemskerck Maarten van Heemskerck or ''Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen'' (1 June 1498 - 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Itali ...
File:Heemskerck-hanginggardens.jpg, ''
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'', said to be the oldest-known imaginary reconstruction from historical descriptions File:Temple of Artemis.jpg, The
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, has the "old-fashioned" look of
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in Florence and other Italian ''quattrocento'' churches of the mannerist generation. File:Statue of Zeus.jpg, A fanciful reconstruction of
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' Statue of Zeus at Olympia, engraving by
Philip Galle Philip (or Philips) Galle (1537 – March 1612) was a Dutch publisher, best known for publishing old master prints, which he also produced as designer and engraver. He is especially known for his reproductive engravings of paintings. Life Gall ...
in 1572, from a drawing by Heemskerck File:Pharos of Alexandria.jpg, A fanciful 16th-century interpretation of the Pharos, or
Lighthouse of Alexandria The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, contemporary Koine ), was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the re ...
File:Giza.PNG, The
Great Pyramid of Giza The Great Pyramid of Giza is the biggest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu. Built in the early 26th century BC during a period of around 27 years, the pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, ...
(Bettman collection) File:Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.jpg, Fanciful interpretation of the
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus ( grc, Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; tr, Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an ...
, 1572 File:Self-portrait with the Colosseum, by Maerten van Heemskerck.png, He painted his
self-portrait with the Colosseum ''Self-portrait with the Colosseum'' is a 1553 painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Maarten van Heemskerck in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
.


Paintings

Many works by van Heemskerck survive. ''Adam and Eve'' and ''
St. Luke painting the Likeness of the Virgin and Child'' in presence of a poet crowned with ivy leaves, and a parrot in a cage – an altar-piece in the gallery of Haarlem, and the '' Ecce Homo'' in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, are characteristic works of the period preceding van Heemskerck's visit to Italy. An
altar-piece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...
executed for the St. Laurence Church of
Alkmaar Alkmaar () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland, about 30 km north of Amsterdam. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional cheese market. For tourists, it is a popular cultural destination. The ...
in 1539–1543, composed of at least a dozen large panels, which including portraits of historical figures, preserved in
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, Sweden since the Reformation, shows his style after his return from Italy. He painted a crucifixion for the Riches Claires at Ghent (now in the
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent The Museum of Fine Arts ( nl, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, MSK) an art museum in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark (near the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst). The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks ...
) in 1543, and an altar-piece for the Drapers' Company at Haarlem, finished in 1546 and now in the gallery of the Hague. They show how Heemskerck studied and repeated the forms which he had seen in the works of
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and
Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...
at Rome, and in the frescoes of
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and
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in Lombardy, but he never forgot his Dutch origin or the models first presented to him by Scorel and
Jan Mabuse Jan Gossaert (c. 1478 – 1 October 1532) was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse (the name he adopted from his birthplace, Maubeuge) or Jennyn van Hennegouwe ( Hainaut), as he called himself when he matri ...
. In 1550, Heemskerck painted a large, now dismembered
triptych A triptych ( ; from the Greek language, Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) t ...
, the remains of which are today divided between the
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of Strasbourg, located in the Alsace region of France. The museum is housed in the first and second floors of the ...
('' Adam and Eve/Gideon and the Fleece''), and the
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...
(''The Visitation''). As late as 1551, he then produced a copy from Raphael's '' Madonna of Loreto'' (
Frans Hals Museum The Frans Hals Museum is a museum located in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The museum was established in 1862. In 1950, the museum was split in two locations when the collection of modern art was moved to the '' Museum De Hallen'' (since 2018 called ...
). In 1552, he painted a view of a bull race inside the Colosseum of Rome ( Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille). A ''Judgment of Momus'', dated 1561, in the
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The Gemäldegalerie (, ''Painting Gallery'') is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (''Staatliche Museen zu Berlin'') is displayed. It was first opened in ...
, shows that he was well acquainted with anatomy and fond of florid architecture. Two altar-pieces which he finished for churches at Delft in 1551 and 1559, one complete (''St. Luke painting the Virgin''), the other a fragment, in the museum of Haarlem, a third of 1551 in the Brussels Museum, representing
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, the ''Crucifixion'', the ''Flight into Egypt'', ''Christ on the Mount'', and scenes from the lives of St. Bernard and St. Benedict, are all fairly representative of his style. There is a ''Crucifixion'' in the
Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...
of
Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, and two ''Triumphs of Silenus'' in the gallery of Vienna. Other pieces of varying importance are in the galleries of Rotterdam, Munich, Cassel, Brunswick, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Copenhagen, Strasbourg and Rennes.


Parrots

In his depiction of ''
Saint Luke painting the Virgin Saint Luke painting the Virgin (German and Dutch: ''Lukas-Madonna'') is a devotional subject in art showing Luke the Evangelist painting the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. Such paintings were often created during the Renaissance for chapels of ...
'', which Heemskerck painted twice for two painter's guilds, there is some confusion in the literature about a parrot. In both paintings he painted a parrot, but the parrot in a cage has been sawn off the first painting and is no longer visible.Het Schilderboek: Het Leven Van De Doorluchtige Nederlandse En Hoogduitse Schilders.
Carel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembe ...
, with notes, 1995. .


Death

In Amsterdam he made a will, which has been preserved. It shows that he had lived long enough and prosperously enough to make a fortune. At his death, he left money and land in trust to the orphanage of Haarlem, with interest to be paid yearly to any couple who should be willing to perform the marriage ceremony on the slab of his tomb in the cathedral of Haarlem. It was a superstition in Catholic Holland that a marriage so celebrated would secure the peace of the dead within the tomb.


Reputation

Heemskerck was widely respected in his own lifetime and was a strong influence on the painters of Haarlem in particular. He is known (along with his teacher Jan van Scorel) for his introduction of Italian art to the Northern Netherlands, especially for his series on the wonders of the world, that were subsequently spread as prints. Karel van Mander devoted six pages to his biography in his ''Schilder-boeck''.


Public collections

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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Ste ...
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* Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino,
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References


Sources

* Includes an English translation of van Mander's biography of Heemskerck.


Further reading

* Tatjana Bartsch, ''Maarten van Heemskerck. Römische Studien zwischen Sachlichkeit und Imagination.'' (München: Hirmer 2019) (Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana Bd. 44). * Arthur J. DiFuria, ''Maarten van Heemskerck's Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Cult of Ruins.'' (Leiden: Brill 2019). * Marco Folin - Monica Preti, ''Les villes détruites de Maarten van Heemskerck. Images de ruines et conflits religieux dans les Pays-Bas au XVIe siècle'', (Paris: Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2015). * Tatjana Bartsch - Peter Seiler (ed.), ''Rom zeichnen. Maarten van Heemskerck 1532–1536/37.'' (Berlin: Mann 2012) (humboldt-schriften zur kunst- und bildgeschichte, 8). * Tatjana Bartsch, "Maarten van Heemskercks Zeichnung des 'Brutus' und seine Verbindung zu Kardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi," Agnes Schwarzmaier (ed.), ''Der 'Brutus' vom Kapitol: Ein Porträt macht Weltgeschichte.'' (München: Ed. Minerva, 2010) (exh.-cat. Berlin), 81–89. * Arthur J. DiFuria, "Maerten van Heemskerck's Collection Imagery in the Netherlandish Pictorial Memory," ''Intellectual History Review,'' 20, 2010 - Issue 1, 27–51. * Arthur J. DiFuria, "Remembering the Eternal: Maerten van Heemskerck's Self-Portrait Before the Colosseum," ''Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaerboek.'' 59(1), 2009, 90-108. * Tatjana Bartsch, "Transformierte Transformation. Zur 'fortuna' der Antikenstudien Maarten van Heemskercks im 17. Jahrhundert," Ernst Osterkamp (ed.), ''Wissensästhetik: Wissen über die Antike in aesthetischer Vermittlung'' (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008) (Transformationen der Antike, 6), 113–159. * Tatjana Bartsch, "Kapitell. Colosseum. Überlegungen zu Heemskercks Bildfindungen am Beispiel von fol. 28 r. des römischen Skizzenbuches," Kathrin Schade e.a. (ed.), ''Zentren und Wirkungsräume der Antikenrezeption.'' (Münster: Scriptorium, 2007), 27–38. * Erik Zevenhuizen - Piet de Boer (ed.), ''Maerten van Heemskerck, 1498 - 1574: 'constigh vermaert schilder (Heemskerk: Historische Kring Heemskerk, 1998). * Ilja Veldman, ''Maarten van Heemskerck.'' (Roosendaal: Koninklijke Van Poll, 1993-1994) (The new Hollstein Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1, 2). * Jefferson Cabell Harrison Jr., ''The Paintings of Maerten van Heemskerck – a Catalogue Raisonné.'' (Charlottesville/Va., University of Virginia, Phil. Diss., 1987). * Rainald Grosshans, ''Maerten van Heemskerck. Die Gemälde.'' (Berlin: Boettcher, 1980). * Ilja Veldman (Michael Hoyle, trans.), ''Maarten Van Heemskerck and Dutch Humanism in the Sixteenth Century.'' (Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, 1977).


External links


Entry on Maarten van Heemskerck in the RKD Artist databaseWorks by Maarten van Heemskerck in the Rijksmuseum AmsterdamLiterature on Marten van HeemskerkA catalogue of the prints which have been engraved after Martin Heemskerck''Vermeer and The Delft School''
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Maarten van Heemskerck (see index) *
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints
', a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Maarten van Heemskerck (see index)
Prints after Maarten van Heemskerck
in Dresden's Kupferstich-Kabinett {{DEFAULTSORT:van Heemskerk, Maarten 1498 births 1574 deaths People from Heemskerk Dutch Mannerist painters Dutch male painters Dutch portrait painters Painters from Haarlem Dutch Roman Catholics