n by
Queen Mary, even as she is now by Queen Elizabeth; and likewise
Catharina, daughter of Meister Jan van Hemessen, who went to Spain
into the service of the Queen of Hungary, with a good salary. In
short, many other women in those parts have been excellent
miniaturists.

In the work of glass and of making windows there have been many able
men in the same province; Arthus van Noort of Nymwegen, Borghese of
Antwerp, Dierick Jacobsz Vellaert, Dirk van Staren of Kampen, and Jan
Haeck of Antwerp, by whom are the windows in the Chapel of the
Sacrament in the Church of S. Gudule in Brussels. And here in Tuscany
many very beautiful windows of fired glass have been made for the Duke
of Florence by Wouter Crabeth and Giorgio, Flemings and able men, from
the designs of Vasari.

In architecture and sculpture the most celebrated Flemings are
Sebastian van Oja of Utrecht, who served Charles V in some
fortifications, and then King Philip; Willem van Antwerp; Willem Keur
of Holland, a good architect and sculptor; Jan van Dalen, sculptor,
poet and architect; and Jakob Breuck, sculptor and architect, who
executed many works for the Queen Regent of Hungary, and was the
master of Giovan Bologna of Douai, one of our Academicians, of whom we
shall speak in a short time. Jan de Mynsheere of Ghent, also, is held
to be a good architect, and Matthaeus Manemaker of Antwerp, who is
with the King of the Romans, an excellent sculptor; and Cornelis
Floris, brother of the above-named Franz, is likewise an excellent
sculptor and architect, and the first who introduced into Flanders the
method of making grotesques. Others who give their attention to
sculpture, with much honour to themselves, are Willem Paludanus, a
very studious and diligent sculptor, brother of the above-named
Heinrich; Jan der Sart of Nymwegen, Simon van Delft, and Joost
Janszoon of Amsterdam. And Lambert Suavius of Liege is a very good
architect and master in engraving prints with the burin, wherein he
has been followed by Joris Robyn of Ypres, Dirk Volkaerts and Philip
Galle, both of Haarlem, Lucas van Leyden, and many others; who have
all been in Italy in order to learn and to draw the antiquities, and
to return home, as for the most part they have done, excellent
masters. But greater than any of those named above has been Lambert
Lombard of Liege, a man great in letters, judicious in painting, and
excellent in architecture, the master of Franz Floris and Willem Key;
of the