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durer’s literary remains.
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with Alexander1, the goldsmith, and once with Felix. Master
Joachim de Patinir2 has once dined with me, and his apprentice
once. I made a drawing in half colours3 for the painters. I have
taken i florin for expenses. I gave the four new little pieces4 5 to
Peter Wolfgang. Master Joachim’s apprentice has again dined with
me. I gave Master Joachim i fl. worth of prints for lending me his
apprentice and his colours, and I gave his apprentice three pounds’
worth of prints.
I have sent Alexander the goldsmith the four new pieces. I made
portraits in charcoal of these Genoese :—Tomasin Florianus Romanus
(Tomaso Bombelli0) native of Lucca, and Tomasin’s two brothers
Vincentius and Gerhard by name, all three Bombelli. I have dined
with Tomasin thus often jjjjjjjjjjjj-
The Treasurer (Lorenz Sterk) also gave me a child’s head (painted)
on linen, and a wooden weapon from Calicut, and one of the light
wood reeds. Tomasin too has given me a plaited hat of alder bark. I
dined once with the Portuguese, and have given a brother of Tomasin’s
3 fl. worth of engravings.
Herr Erasmus6 7 has given me a small Spanish mantilla and three
men’s portraits. Tomasin’s brother gave me a pair of gloves. I have
once more taken the portrait of Tomasin’s brother Vincentius, and I
gave Master Augustin Lombard the two parts of the “ Imagines
Coeli1I also took a portrait of the crooked-nosed Italian named
Opitius. My wife and maid dined one day at Master Tomasin’s house;
that makes 4 dinners.
The Church of our Lady (the Cathedral) at Antwerp is so very
large that many masses are sung in it at one time without interfering
with each other. The altars have wealthy endowments, and the best
musicians are employed that can be had. The church has many
devout services, much stone-work, and in particular a beautiful tower.
I have also been into the rich Abbey of St Michael8. There are, in
the choir there, splendid stalls of sculptured stone-work. But at
Antwerp they spare no cost on such things, for there is money enough.
I took the portrait of Herr Niclas Kratzer9, an Astronomer. He
lives with the King of England, and has been very helpful and useful to
1 Two goldsmiths named Alexander were members of the Antwerp guild at
this time.
2 The famous painter.
3 That is to say a pen-and-ink outline, washed with water-colours.
4 B. 36, 58, and 89 are dated 1519, B. 37, 38, 1520.
5 He was a rich Antwerp silk-merchant.
6 Erasmus of Rotterdam, the famous Humanist.
7 These were the woodcuts B. 151 and 152.
8 In the Grahl collection at Dresden is a view of Antwerp, drawn by Diirer and
showing this Abbey. A page of Durer’s sketch-book in the Due d’Aumale’s
collection shows the tower of the same building.
9 See above, p. 28. Holbein also painted a portrait of this man in 1528. The
picture is in the Louvre.
durer’s literary remains.
[CHAP.
with Alexander1, the goldsmith, and once with Felix. Master
Joachim de Patinir2 has once dined with me, and his apprentice
once. I made a drawing in half colours3 for the painters. I have
taken i florin for expenses. I gave the four new little pieces4 5 to
Peter Wolfgang. Master Joachim’s apprentice has again dined with
me. I gave Master Joachim i fl. worth of prints for lending me his
apprentice and his colours, and I gave his apprentice three pounds’
worth of prints.
I have sent Alexander the goldsmith the four new pieces. I made
portraits in charcoal of these Genoese :—Tomasin Florianus Romanus
(Tomaso Bombelli0) native of Lucca, and Tomasin’s two brothers
Vincentius and Gerhard by name, all three Bombelli. I have dined
with Tomasin thus often jjjjjjjjjjjj-
The Treasurer (Lorenz Sterk) also gave me a child’s head (painted)
on linen, and a wooden weapon from Calicut, and one of the light
wood reeds. Tomasin too has given me a plaited hat of alder bark. I
dined once with the Portuguese, and have given a brother of Tomasin’s
3 fl. worth of engravings.
Herr Erasmus6 7 has given me a small Spanish mantilla and three
men’s portraits. Tomasin’s brother gave me a pair of gloves. I have
once more taken the portrait of Tomasin’s brother Vincentius, and I
gave Master Augustin Lombard the two parts of the “ Imagines
Coeli1I also took a portrait of the crooked-nosed Italian named
Opitius. My wife and maid dined one day at Master Tomasin’s house;
that makes 4 dinners.
The Church of our Lady (the Cathedral) at Antwerp is so very
large that many masses are sung in it at one time without interfering
with each other. The altars have wealthy endowments, and the best
musicians are employed that can be had. The church has many
devout services, much stone-work, and in particular a beautiful tower.
I have also been into the rich Abbey of St Michael8. There are, in
the choir there, splendid stalls of sculptured stone-work. But at
Antwerp they spare no cost on such things, for there is money enough.
I took the portrait of Herr Niclas Kratzer9, an Astronomer. He
lives with the King of England, and has been very helpful and useful to
1 Two goldsmiths named Alexander were members of the Antwerp guild at
this time.
2 The famous painter.
3 That is to say a pen-and-ink outline, washed with water-colours.
4 B. 36, 58, and 89 are dated 1519, B. 37, 38, 1520.
5 He was a rich Antwerp silk-merchant.
6 Erasmus of Rotterdam, the famous Humanist.
7 These were the woodcuts B. 151 and 152.
8 In the Grahl collection at Dresden is a view of Antwerp, drawn by Diirer and
showing this Abbey. A page of Durer’s sketch-book in the Due d’Aumale’s
collection shows the tower of the same building.
9 See above, p. 28. Holbein also painted a portrait of this man in 1528. The
picture is in the Louvre.