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Straet, Jan van der (Joannes Stradanus) (1523-1605)

Creator details

Name
Straet, Jan van der (Joannes Stradanus) (1523-1605)
Nationality
Flemish
Biography
Stradanus spent most of his career in Italy. After training under his father and another Bruges painter, he studied under Pieter Aertsen in Antwerp in 1537. Around 1545 he joined Antwerp's Guild of Saint Luke, then left for Italy via Lyons, France. He worked in Florence and Rome, including under Giorgio Vasari on frescoes and tapestry cartoons for the Palazzo Vecchio.
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Assets (107 in total)

The Alchemist's Workshop, 1570 (oil on slate)
A Game of Football in the Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1555 (fresco)
Piazza del Mercato Vecchio, Florence, 1555 (fresco)
The Siege of Florence in 1530, 1563-65 (fresco)
Map of Hell, illustration from 'Dante's Inferno', 1587 (colour litho)
Printing office, c1600 - Holland, Printing: on the left the characters use characters, the different stages of the preparation of the printing supervised by a master printer - Engraving from “Nova Reperta” by Giovanni Stradano (Jan Van Der Straet) (Johannes Stradanus) (1523-1605), around 1600
Beekeepers, plate 83, illustration from 'Venationes, Ferarum, Avium, Piscium' (Of Hunting: Wild Beasts, Birds, Fish), engraved by Jan Collaert (1566-1628), pub. by Phillipus Gallaeus, Amsterdam (engraving)
The Alchemist's Workshop, 1570 (oil on slate)
The Joust in the Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, 1555 (fresco)
The Last Supper (fresco)
Pearl diving, c.1596 (pen & brown ink with wash and white bodycolour, on laid paper)
A public festival in the Piazza Santo Spirito, Florence, 1555 (fresco)
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