VINCKENBRINCK, Albert Jansz. - b. ~1604 Spaarndam, d. 1664 Amsterdam - WGA

VINCKENBRINCK, Albert Jansz.

(b. ~1604 Spaarndam, d. 1664 Amsterdam)

Dutch wood-carver. Although little is known about his life, he probably trained with his cabinetmaker father. His surviving body of work includes an oak pulpit in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam and a number of small, intricate boxwood reliefs. Vinckenbrinck usually signed his work with either the monogram AVB or ALVB.

Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (14661469-1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. He had a major influence on intellectual circles in the Netherlands.

In the Web Gallery of Art you can view several portraits of Erasmus by Renaissance painters, such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Albrecht D�rer and Quentin Massys.

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