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460 great colourist, and an admirable portrait painter, in which branch of art he was much employed by King Francis of France, for whom he painted many of his nobles and ladies.

Kenowned painters of those lands have been, and in part still are, Giovanni d’Hemsen; Mathias Cook, of Antwerp; Bernhard, of Brussels; Giovanni Cornelis, of Amsterdam; Lambert of the same place; Heinrich, of Dinant; Joachim von Partenier, of Bovines, and Johann Schoreel, Canon of Utrecht, who took from Italy into Flanders many new modes of painting. In addition to these, I may name Giovanni Bellagamba, of Houai; Dierich d’Haarlem, of the same place; and Francesco Mostaert, who displayed much ability in landscapes painted in oil, and in the painting of phantasies, dreams, and other imaginations. He was imitated by Girolamo Hertoghen Bos, and Peter Breughel of Breda. A certain Lancelotto was excellent at painting fires, nights, meteors, devils, and such like; while Piero Coek displayed much invention in his stories, and made excellent Cartoons for tapestry and cloth of arras; he had also a good manner, and considerable practice in architecture; wherefore he has translated into the German tongue, the architectural work of the Bolognese, Sebastiano Serlio.

Giovanni di Mabuse was almost the first who took the true method of representing nude figures and poetical inventions, from Italy into Flanders. The great Tribune of the Abbey of Middleburg in Seeland, is by his hand. Of all these I have received notice from the painter. Maestro Giovanni della Strada, of Bruges, and from Giovanni Bologna of Douai, the sculptor, both Flemings and excellent artists, as we shall furthermore observe in the treatise on the Academicians.

As to such of the masters belonging to those parts as are