Lucas de heere artistic checks

165 Art and Artistry in Lucas de Heere Bart Ramakers There is no art found under heaven Of which a true artist does not have an understanding.

All arts are therefore contained within Pictura. I The fragmentation of scholarly disciplines that has occurred since the eighteenth century has led to a tendency among scholars to study and appraise separately the work of all-round artists like the Ghent painter and poet Lucas de Heere (1534-1584).2 Moreover, the fact that these assessments are made in normative-aesthetic terms arises out of an altered conception of art that took hold in that same period.

Lucas de heere artistic checks

This has led to a lack of proper understanding of De Heere 's versatility, although this was the very hallmark of a Renaissance artist . Using De Heere's picture poems and other art-related poetry in Den Holen Boomgaerd der Poesien ('The Court and Orchard of Poetry'; fig.

I), an anthology printed in 1565 by Ghileyn Manilius in Ghent, this