Maria Tesselschade Visscher
{{Short description|Dutch artist (1594–1649)}}
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| birth_place = Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
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| movement = Dutch Golden Age
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Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher (25 March 1594 – 20 June 1649), also called Maria Tesselschade Roemersdochter Visscher ({{IPA|nl|maːˈrijaː ˈtɛsəlˌsxaːdə ˈrumərzˌdɔxtər ˈvɪsər}}), was a Dutch poet and glass engraver.
Life
Tesselschade was born in Amsterdam, the youngest of three daughters of poet and humanist Roemer Visscher.{{Cite journal|title=MARIA TESSELSCHADE ROEMER VISSCHER (1593-1649)|journal=Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies|issue=XI, 1990}} She was given the name Tesselschade ("Damage on Tessel"), because her father lost ships near the Dutch island Texel on Christmas Eve 1593, three months before her birth, to remember that 'worldly wealth could be gone instantly.'
She and her sister, Anna, were the only female members of the Muiderkring, the group of Dutch Golden Age intellectuals who met at Muiden Castle. She is often characterised as a muse of the group and attracted the admiration of its members, such as its organiser Hooft, Huygens, Barlaeus, Bredero, Heinsius, Vondel and Jacob Cats.
In their correspondence, she is described as attractive, musically talented, and a skilled translator and commentator from French and Italian.The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, Simon Schama, HarperCollins, 1987; {{ISBN|0-00-217801-X}} They also praised her skill at singing, painting, carving, glass engraving and tapestry work.History of Holland, George Edmundson, Cambridge University Press, 1922 [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/george-edmundson/history-of-holland-179.shtml ebook, ebooksread.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210514/http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/george-edmundson/history-of-holland-179.shtml |date=27 September 2007}}
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has an example of her engraving work, a römer drinking glass engraved with the motto Sic Soleo Amicos ("this is how I treat my friends").{{cite web|url=http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/BK-NM-10754-50?lang=en&context_space=&context_id=|title=Roemer, Anonymous, c. 1625 - c. 1650|work=Rijksmuseum|access-date=1 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010160948/http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/BK-NM-10754-50?lang=en&context_space=&context_id=|archive-date=10 October 2012|url-status=dead}}
In 1623, she married a ship's officer, Allard Crombalch. After he died in 1634, Huygens and Barlaeus proposed marriage to her, offers which she rejected.
Legacy
References
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Further reading
- Lennep, J, Herman F. C. Kate, and W P. Hoevenaar. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQ9jAAAAcAAJ&dq=Galerij%20van%20beroemde%20nederlanders%20uit%20het%20tijdvak%20van%20Frederik%20Hendrik&pg=PA30-IA102 Galerij Van Beroemde Nederlanders Uit Het Tijdvak Van Frederik Hendrik]. Utrecht: L.E. Bosch en Zoon, 1868.
External links
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- [http://www.dbnl.nl/tekst/viss002gedi01/ Maria Tesselschade Visscher] - digital version of all her poems {{in lang|nl}}
- [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DVN/lemmata/data/Visscher,%20Maria%20Tesseschade%20Roemers Visscher, Tesselschade Roemersdr.], Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (in Dutch)
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Category:16th-century Dutch women
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Category:17th-century Dutch writers
Category:Engravers from Amsterdam
Category:Writers from Amsterdam
Category:Dutch Golden Age writers
Category:Burials at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Category:17th-century Dutch engravers
Category:17th-century Dutch women artists