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VII.]
DURER AT ANTWERP.
105
a single one is broader than a strong man’s back—and his other limbs.
The man was 18 ft. high, had ruled at Antwerp and done wondrous
great feats, as is more fully written about him in an old book1 2, which
the Lords of the Town possess.
The studio (school), of Raphael of Urbino has quite broken up since
his death3, but one of his scholars, Tommaso Vincidor of Bologna3 by
name, a good painter, desired to see me. So he came to me and has
given me an antique gold ring with a very well cut stone. It is worth
5 fl. but already I have been offered the double for it. I gave him 6 fl.
worth of my best prints for it. I bought a piece of calico for 3 st.; I
paid the messenger 1 st.; 3 st. I spent in company.
I have presented a whole set of all my works to Lady Margaret the
Emperor’s daughter, and have drawn her two pictures on parchment
with the greatest pains and care. All this I set at as much as 30 fl.
And I have had to draw the design of a house for her physician the
Doctor, according to which he intends to build one; and for drawing
that I would not care to take less than 10 fl. I have given the servant
1 st., and paid 1 st. for brick-colour.
I gave Herr Niklas Ziegler4 5 a Body of Christ lying dead; it is worth
3 fl. To the Portuguese Factor I gave a painting of the Child’s head
worth 1 fl. I bought a small buffalo horn for 10 st. I paid 1 gold fl.
for an elk’s hoof.
I made a portrait in charcoal of Master Adrian (Horebout). I gave
2 st. for the Condemnation? and the Dialogus6 and 3 st. to the messenger.
To Master Adrian I gave 2 fl. worth of art-wares. Bought a piece of
red chalk for 1 st. I have taken Herr Wolf von Rogendorf’s portrait
with the metal-point. I gave away 3 st. I made the portrait of a noble
lady at Tomasin’s house. To Niclas I gave a Jerome in the Cell and
the two new Marys.
On Monday after Michaelmas 1520, I gave Thomas of Bologna a 1 Oct.
whole set of prints to send for me to Rome to another painter who
should send me Raphael’s work7 in return. I dined once with my
wife. I paid 3 st. for the little tracts. The Bolognese has made my
1 Het oud register van diversche mandementen, a 15th century folio manuscript,
still preserved in the Antwerp archives.
2 On the 6th April 1520.
3 Tommaso was sent to Flanders in 1520 by Pope Leo X to oversee the
manufacture of the “second series” of tapestries. The painter does not seem to
have returned to Italy.
4 Son of a Nordlingen family. He occupied a high position at the court of
Charles V.
5 Condemnatio doctrinae librorum Martini Lutheri, per quosdam magistros etc.
Selestadii, Lazarus Schurer, 1520. An edition was printed in Wittenberg in the
same year.
6 Perhaps the satirical tract printed in 1520, possibly at Antwerp, entitled, Ayn
schoner dialogue von zwayen gutten gesellen genant Hanns Tholl, vnnd Claus Lamp,
sagendt vom Antechrist vnd seynen jungern. Sytzendt beym weyn guts muts vnuerholen
aus der Epistel pauli.
7 Engravings by Marcantonio from Raphael’s designs.
DURER AT ANTWERP.
105
a single one is broader than a strong man’s back—and his other limbs.
The man was 18 ft. high, had ruled at Antwerp and done wondrous
great feats, as is more fully written about him in an old book1 2, which
the Lords of the Town possess.
The studio (school), of Raphael of Urbino has quite broken up since
his death3, but one of his scholars, Tommaso Vincidor of Bologna3 by
name, a good painter, desired to see me. So he came to me and has
given me an antique gold ring with a very well cut stone. It is worth
5 fl. but already I have been offered the double for it. I gave him 6 fl.
worth of my best prints for it. I bought a piece of calico for 3 st.; I
paid the messenger 1 st.; 3 st. I spent in company.
I have presented a whole set of all my works to Lady Margaret the
Emperor’s daughter, and have drawn her two pictures on parchment
with the greatest pains and care. All this I set at as much as 30 fl.
And I have had to draw the design of a house for her physician the
Doctor, according to which he intends to build one; and for drawing
that I would not care to take less than 10 fl. I have given the servant
1 st., and paid 1 st. for brick-colour.
I gave Herr Niklas Ziegler4 5 a Body of Christ lying dead; it is worth
3 fl. To the Portuguese Factor I gave a painting of the Child’s head
worth 1 fl. I bought a small buffalo horn for 10 st. I paid 1 gold fl.
for an elk’s hoof.
I made a portrait in charcoal of Master Adrian (Horebout). I gave
2 st. for the Condemnation? and the Dialogus6 and 3 st. to the messenger.
To Master Adrian I gave 2 fl. worth of art-wares. Bought a piece of
red chalk for 1 st. I have taken Herr Wolf von Rogendorf’s portrait
with the metal-point. I gave away 3 st. I made the portrait of a noble
lady at Tomasin’s house. To Niclas I gave a Jerome in the Cell and
the two new Marys.
On Monday after Michaelmas 1520, I gave Thomas of Bologna a 1 Oct.
whole set of prints to send for me to Rome to another painter who
should send me Raphael’s work7 in return. I dined once with my
wife. I paid 3 st. for the little tracts. The Bolognese has made my
1 Het oud register van diversche mandementen, a 15th century folio manuscript,
still preserved in the Antwerp archives.
2 On the 6th April 1520.
3 Tommaso was sent to Flanders in 1520 by Pope Leo X to oversee the
manufacture of the “second series” of tapestries. The painter does not seem to
have returned to Italy.
4 Son of a Nordlingen family. He occupied a high position at the court of
Charles V.
5 Condemnatio doctrinae librorum Martini Lutheri, per quosdam magistros etc.
Selestadii, Lazarus Schurer, 1520. An edition was printed in Wittenberg in the
same year.
6 Perhaps the satirical tract printed in 1520, possibly at Antwerp, entitled, Ayn
schoner dialogue von zwayen gutten gesellen genant Hanns Tholl, vnnd Claus Lamp,
sagendt vom Antechrist vnd seynen jungern. Sytzendt beym weyn guts muts vnuerholen
aus der Epistel pauli.
7 Engravings by Marcantonio from Raphael’s designs.