ity, and in particular two chapels in S.
Maria de Anima. Having then returned to his own country and made
himself known as an able man, I hear that among other works he
executed for King Philip of Spain an altar-picture copied from one by
the above-named Jan van Eyck that is in Ghent; and in that copy, which
was taken into Spain, is the Triumph of the Agnus Dei. There studied
in Rome, not long afterwards, Martin Heemskerk, a good master of
figures and landscapes, who has executed in Flanders many pictures and
many designs for copper-engravings, which, as has been related
elsewhere, have been engraved by Hieronymus Cock, whom I came to know
in Rome while I was serving Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici. And all
these have been most beautiful inventors of stories, and close
observers of the Italian manner.

[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF A MAN

(_After the painting by =Johannes Calcar=. Paris: Louvre, No. 1185_)

_X phot._]

In Naples, also, in the year 1545, I came to know Johann of Calcar, a
Flemish painter, who became very much my friend; a very rare
craftsman, and so well practised in the Italian manner, that his works
were not recognized as by the hand of a Fleming. But he died young in
Naples, while great things were expected of him; and he drew for
Vessalio his studies in anatomy. Before him, however, there was much
in repute one Dirk of Louvain, a good master in that manner; and also
Quentin of the same place, who in his figures always followed nature
as well as he was able, as also did a son of his called Johann. Joost
van Cleef, likewise, was a great colourist and rare in making
portraits from life, for which King Francis of France employed him
much in executing many portraits of various lords and ladies. Famous
painters of the same province, also, have been--and some of them still
are--Jan van Hemessen, Matthys Cock of Antwerp, Bernard of Brussels,
Jan Cornelis of Amsterdam, Lambert of the same city, Hendrik of
Dinant, Joachim Patinier of Bouvignes, and Jan Scorel, Canon of
Utrecht, who carried into Flanders many new methods of painting taken
from Italy. Besides these, there have been Jean Bellegambe of Douai,
Dirk of Haarlem, from the same place, and Franz Mostaert, who was
passing skilful in painting landscapes in oils, fantasies, bizarre
inventions, dreams, and suchlike imaginings. Hieronymus Bosch and
Pieter Brueghel of Breda were imitators of that Mostaert, and Lancelot
Blondeel has been excellent in painting f