Flemish painter from Antwerp who worked in Paris (c.1565) at the same time as
Primaticcio and Niccolo dell Abbate, and in Rome (c.1567-75) as an assistant to Taddeo Zuccaro, and in Vienna, for the Emperor Maximilian II, in 1575. He later worked for Rudolf II in Prague, where he died.
He was a typical representative of late Mannerism, using numerous nude figures in unlikely attitudes to fill his compositions, which derive ultimately from
Correggio and
Parmigianino. The engravings of
Goltzius made his works very widely known. In Haarlem, besides Goltzius, he influenced
Cornelisz. and
van Mander, and in Utrecht
Wtewael. He is well represented in the Vienna Gallery, but there are other examples in Antwerp, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland Ohio, London (NG), Munich, Paris and elsewhere.
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