Discover painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter Bartholomeus Spranger

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: Spraneers, Bartholomaeus
Spraneers, Bartholomeus
Spranger, Bartholomaeus

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter, court painter

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish (school)

Born: Antwerp (city) 1546-03-21

Deceased: Prague 1611-09/1611-09-27
buried 27 September 1611 (Saur 2019)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Joachim Spranger and Anna Roelandtsdr; married to Christine Müller (1567 - 1600), in Prague in 1582; uncle of Gommer Spranger

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for Muller, see Leeflang 2008

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134 hits in RKDimages as artist
16 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
425 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
1 hit in RKDtechnical as artist

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Antwerpen (stad) 1557 - 1564
Parijs 1565
worked for six weeks in the studio of the miniature painter Marc Duval (Saur 2019)
Fontainebleau
Lyon
Van Mander 2601, fol. 269v
Milaan 1565 - 1566
among others Milan, Parma
Parma
Rome 1566-07 - 1575
Wenen (stad) 1575 - 1576
Praag 1581 - 1602
c. 1581; married Christine Müller (1567-1600) in 1582
Amsterdam (stad) 1602
made a trip to the Netherlands at the expense of the emperor (Van Mander 1604, fol. 274r)
Haarlem (stad) 1602
Antwerpen (stad) 1602
Keulen 1602
Praag 1602 - 1611

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Dalem, Cornelis van
Mandijn, Jan
Mostaert, Frans
Van Mander 1604
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Goltzius, Hendrick
Gundelach, Matthäus
Möller, Anton

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: mythology, portrait

Medium/technique: oil paint

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Prague School

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 16 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van Mander 1604 , fol. 268v-274v
Baldinucci 1681-1728/1725-1730/1974-1975 , vol. 3, p. 158-176
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 6 (1862), p. 1551-1552
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 31 (1937), p. 403-406
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 568
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 210, 235, 280-281
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 28 [1984], p. 23-26
Witt Checklist 1978
Haak 1984
DaCosta Kaufmann 1985 , p. 249-279, no. 20
Prag um 1600 (Vienna 1988 II) , passim
Meijer 1988 , passim
Luijten et al. 1993 , p. 317
Dacos/Meijer et al. 1995 , p. 341-352
Braunschweig 1998 , no. 43 and 52-53
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 29, p. 428-432
(H. Galen, 'Bartholomäus Spranger: Allegorie auf den Türkenkrieg Kaiser Rudolfs II.', in: D. Dombrowski, K. Heusing and A. Dern, Zwischen den Welten. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte für Jürg Meyer zur Capellen. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag, Weimar 2001, p. 138-145)
Boschloo/Grasman/Sman/Houten 2002 , p. 249-254 (G. Sapori, 'Un disegno e un committente per Spranger a Roma')
Boschloo et al. 2011 , p. 89-102 (H. Leeflang, ''Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus' 'after' Bartholomeus Spranger: An Early Parody of Style')
Dacos 2012 , passim
Konečný/Vácha/Bukovinská 2012 , passim
Van Gastel/Hadjinicolaou/Rath 2014 , p. 211-235 (Y. Hadjinicolaou, 'Malerei auf Stein, steinerne Malerei. Die Farbgestaltung bei Spranger und de Gelder')
Saur 1992- , vol. 105 (2019), p. 332 (text: Ilja M. Veldman)

J.F.A. Orbaan, ‘Parmesaansche Gegevens’, Oud-Holland 41 (1923-1924), p. 250-257, esp. p. 255
'Rudolf II and his time' (special issue), Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 1 (1982), passim
J. Tylicki, 'Drei Schlesische Zeichnungen und ein verschollenes Werk von Spranger', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichtee 57 (1994), p. 90-101
M. Fabianski, 'Spranger and Italian painting. Mannerism versus early Baroque in Central Europe', Apollo 141 (1995), no. 397, p. 20-24
H. Galen, 'Bartholomäus Spranger: Allegorie auf den Türkenkrieg Kaiser Rudolfs II.', in: D. Dombrowski, K. Heusing and A. Dern, Zwischen den Welten. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte für Jürg Meyer zur Capellen. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag, Weimar 2001, p. 138-145
E. Fuciková, L. Konecny, 'A New Painting by Bartholomäus Spranger', Studia Rudolphina 8 (2008), p. 73-76
L. Konecny, 'Spranger's Elephant', Studia Rudolphina 8 (2008), p. 68-72
H. Leeflang, 'Post uit Praag. Over een teruggevonden tekening van Bartholomeus Spranger', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 56 (2008), p. 114-127
E. Reitz, ‘Bartholomäus Sprangers Selbstbildnis zwischen Herkunft und Fremde’, Studia Ruldolphina 9(2009), p. 39-52 (online via: http://www.udu.cas.cz/download/?file=dow_file%2F63%2F32.pdf&downloadFilename=SR_09_for_web.pdf&language=cs)
B.W. Meijer, 'Bartholomeus Spranger and Michiel de Joncqouy in Sant' Oreste', Oud Holland 124 (2011), p. 38-47
E. Fuciková, L. Konecny, 'Two Late Paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger', Studia Rudolphina 12-13(2012-2013), p. 103-110
S. Vécha, ‘The School of Praque or Old Masters: Rudofine Painting in the Literary and Visual Discourse of the 17th and 18th Centuries’, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 3 (2014), p. 361-384
E. Reitz, 'Ausstellung. Bartholomeus Spranger [...]', Kunstchronik 68 (2015), p. 134-140
S. Alsteens, 'A chariot design by Bartholomeus Spranger', Master Drawings 54 (2016), no. 3, p. 385-390
J. Zimmer, 'Das Prager "Auferstehungsretabel" von 1598. Beobachtungen und Uberlegungen zur geistlichen Kultur im Umfeld Rudolfs II.' Studia Rudolphina 14 (2014), p. 51-100
M. Zlatohlavek, 'Newly attributed drawings by Bartholomeus Spranger in the Style of Cambiaso', Studia Rudolphina 16 (2016), p. 94-103

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Creation date: 1992-01-26; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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