Dirck Barendsz
{{Short description|Painter from the Northern Netherlands}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dirck Barendsz
| image = Cornelis Ketel - Portret van de schilder Dirck Barendsz.jpg
| caption = Portrait of Dirck Barendsz by Cornelis Ketel
| birth_date = 1534
| birth_place = Amsterdam, Holland, Spain
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1592|1534}}
| death_place = Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands
| parents = Barend Dircksz
}}
Dirck Barendsz or Theodor Barendszoon (1534–1592) was a Dutch Renaissance painter from Amsterdam who traveled to Italy in his youth to learn from the Italian masters, most notably Titian.
Biography
He was trained by his father, a painter known as Barend Dircksz, or deaf Barent,{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/mand001schi01_01/mand001schi01_01_0241.htm Dirck Barentsen biography] in Karel van Mander's Schilderboeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature and in 1555, at the age of twenty-one, Barendsz travelled to Italy. During his seven-year stay there, Karel van Mander tells us that he was "nursed at the great Titian's bosem."{{cite web|url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/mand001schi01_01/mand001schi01_01_0241.htm |title=Dirck Barentsen, die Schilder geboren wesende, noch daerenboven des grooten Titiaens boesem heeft ghenoten |publisher=Dbnl.org |date= |accessdate=2012-04-22}}Marcel Roethlisberger, Review of Dirck Barendsz. 1534-1592 by J. Richard Judson and Jan Asselijn by Anne Charlotte Steland-Stief, The Art Bulletin, vol. 54 (Dec., 1972), pp. 553-555.
File:Dirck Barendsz. - Triptych with scenes from the life of the Virgin.jpg - Museum Gouda, c. 1565]]
He was a great friend of Philip Van Marnix, whom he met in Rome, and Dominicus Lampsonius, with whom he corresponded in Latin. He was a good musician and his most notable work, among various other pieces Van Mander describes that he painted in Amsterdam, was a Judith. Among pieces worthy of mention in Leiden that Van Mander liked was a Venus that at the time he was writing in 1604 was in the possession of Sybrandt Buyck (son of the last Catholic mayor of Amsterdam, Joost Sijbrantsz Buyck). Van Mander further lists several Tafels (altarpieces), including a "Christmas piece" in the possession of the Fraterhouse in Gouda, and a copy of a tronie by Titian, in the possession of Pieter Isaacsz (1569–1625), an Amsterdam painter and art dealer. The "Christmas piece" is still in Gouda and is the only complete surviving altarpiece by him.[https://fine-arts-museum.be/uploads/pages/files/be_brl01_bulletin_mrbab_kmskb_1962_1_2.pdf Article about Dirck Barentsen], including an illustrated discussion of this triptych, by Jay Richard Judson, Bulletin KMSK, 1962
His chapel piece for the Amsterdam militia, called a Fall of Lucifer by Mander, was destroyed in the Beeldenstorm, but his militia portrait for the same group that hung in their meeting hall survived.
He died in Amsterdam.
Gallery
File:Maaltijd van achttien Amsterdamse schutters van Rot L, 1566, bekend als 'De poseters'. Rijksmuseum SK-C-365.jpeg|Meal of the Amsterdam guardsmen in 1566, known as the Poseters
File:Barendsz., Dirck - The Last Judgment - 1561.jpg|The Last Judgment, Benedictine Abbey, Fara in Sabina, 1561
File:Dirck Barendsz. - Sinful Mankind Surprised by the Day of Judgment.jpg|Sinful Mankind Surprised by the Day of Judgment, National Gallery of Denmark
References
Further reading
- {{Cite Newgenbio |title=Barentsen or Barents, Thierry |volume=3 |page=173}}
External links
- {{commons category-inline|Dirck Barendsz.}}
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Category:Early Netherlandish painters
Category:Painters from Amsterdam
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