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Adam Elsheimer

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Adam Elsheimer , 1578-1610?, German painter. After studying in Frankfurt, Munich, and Venice, he settled in Rome and worked for Pope Paul V. He painted small pictures on copper. They were chiefly of biblical and mythological subjects with landscape backgrounds, which he executed with minute precision. He had numerous students (including Pieter Lastman, who was the teacher of Rembrandt) and is thought to have had a considerable influence on Dutch landscape painting. Elsheimer was particularly successful in rendering light effects. His Good Samaritan is in the Louvre. Tobias and Coronis... Read more
Adam Elsheimer
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... painting to depict the constellations accurately. An important figure in the development of 17th-century landscape painting, he greatly influenced Dutch, Italian, and French artists. He died at age 32. Adam Elsheimer Adam Elsheimer Adam Elsheimer Read more
Claude Lorrain
Encyclopedia of World Biography ... from such late mannerist artists as Paul Brill and Adam Elsheimer, who utilized stage-set structural devices, remains ... sun and moon effects of such a mannerist precursor as Elsheimer. His drawings, though great in variety, uniformly reveal ... Read more

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