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Adriaen de Valck (1622 – p. 1676), Netherlandish

Gillis [or Aegidius] I van Valckenborch [Falckenburg, Valckenburg, Valkenburg or Walckenburg]

Member of a Flemish family of artists who, for political or religious reasons, left the Spanish-occupied southern Netherlands and settled in the more tolerant German imperial cities, particularly Frankfurt am Main, where they often strongly influenced artistic developments; born ca 1570, died 1622.

Valentin [Le Valentin] – see Valentin de Boulogne

Moïse Valentin – see Jean de Boullogne & Moïse Valentin

Pere Vall [Master of the Cardona Pentecost]

Spanish artist, one of the few identifiable artists active during the early 15th century in Catalonia; he may have received his training in the Barcelona workshop of Pere Serra, but his known activity is limited to the nearby town of Cardona; he lived some time between 1380 and 1480.

Anne Vallayer-Coster

French painter; received by the Académie Royale in 1770, on presentation of the still-lifes Attributes of Painting and Attributes of Music (both Paris, Louvre); born (1744), died (1818).

Francesco Vanni

Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker active in Rome and Siena during the transition from mannerist to baroque styles; born Siena (1563), died Siena (1610); stepson of Acangelo Salimbeni (d. 1580).

Turino Vanni – see Master of Trapani

Pietro di Cristoforo Vanucci = Perugino

Giorgio Vasari

Italian painter, architect, impressario and biographer; his Lives of the Artists (1550/1568) is a fundamental source of information on Italian Renaissance art; a prolific decorative artist and frescoist; his archtectural achievements include the Uffizi in Florence; born Arezzo (1511), died 1574.

Jan Vassens [Joannes Vasoens] (17th century), Netherlands

Netherlandish monk of the Domincan order which played an important role in the ecclesiastical and economic development of Maastricht.

Theo van de Vathorst

Dutch sculptor and medallist; his large-scale works include the bronze doors of Utrecht Cathedral; he is the designer of 100s of art medals; born Utrecht (1934). Artist's web-site.

Gaspare Vazzano [or Bazzano]

One of two Italian frescoists who worked mainly in the many churches in the small towns in the Madonie mountains of northern Sicily. The other was his pupil and collaborator Giuseppe Salerno (1570-1632). Both were locally known as "Lo Zoppo of Gangi" (the lame man of Gangi), despite their different styles – Vazzano, peaceful and sentimental; Salerno more harsh and didactic. Vazzano was born ca 1560, died ca 1620.

Cesare Vecellio

Italian artist famous today for his book of some 500 costume woodcuts, De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice 1590), but also a painter; born ca 1521, died 1601; a cousin of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), to whom Cesare's costume book was attributed for two centuries.

Pietro della Vechia [Pietro Muttoni; Vecchia Francesco Vellani]

Italian painter of religious and other works, and a designer of cartoons for the mosaics in San Marco; born Venice or Vicenza (1602/3), died Venice (1678).

Luis Gonzales Velazquez

Spanish artist whose painted decorations of the vaults and domes of numerous churches in Madrid include illusionist elements; born Madrid (1715), died Madrid (1764).

Esaias van der Velde

Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher who was one of the founders of the realist school of Dutch landscape painting in the early decades of the 17th century; born Amsterdam (1587), died The Hague (1630).

Francesco Vellani (1688-1766), Italian

Bonifazio Veneziano – See Bonifazio de'Pitati

Lorenzo Veneziano

Italian painter of altarpieces; active Venice (1356-1372).

Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne

Dutch painter, engraver and poet whose paintings show a preference for the themes of the countryside (scenes with wagons, peasants and horsemen) rather than the city; in later life he changed his style and painted crude peasant scenes in monochrome; born Delft (1589), died The Hague (1662).

Marco Ventura

Contemporary Italian illustrator who works in a style similar to those of Renaissance fresco painters drawing in pencil on gesso coated paper and then hand colouring the image; born Milan; son of artist Piero Ventura.

François-Xavier-Henri Verbeeck

Flemish artist; director of the Antwerp Academy; born Antwerp (1686), died Antwerp (1755).

François Verdier [sometimes called van Hamken]

French painter and draughtsman; his subjects include mythological and biblical themes and portraits; born Paris (1651), died Paris (1730); son of Louis Verdier, a court clockmaker.

Adrien Verdoel

Dutch artist of the school of Rembrandt who painted biblical scenes and vanitas still-lifes; active Flushing (ca 1620 -1695).

Johanna Vergouwen (? – 1714), Flemish

Placidus Verhelst

Member of a Flemish family of sculptors, stuccoists and engravers active in Germany; born 1727, died 1778; son of Egid Verhelst I (1696-1749), brother of Wilhelm Verhelst (1729–92) and the engraver Egid Verhelst II (1733–1818 ).

Constantin Verhout

Dutch artist, active Gouda (1663-1667).

Jan [Johnnes] Verkolye [Verkolje] the Elder

Dutch mezzotint engraver, draughtsman and painter of mythological subjects, genre scenes and portraits whose work was in much demand; born Amsterdam (1650), died Delft (1693).

Barend Vermeer – see Barend van der Meer

Jan Vermeer van Delft

Dutch painter prized for his creation of pure colour, form and effects of light, whose pictures are seemingly without human sympathy; born Delft (1632), died Delft (1675).

Andries Vermeulen

Dutch artist who specialized in landscapes and ice scenes after seventeenth-century Dutch models but also created marine paintings and summer landscapes, and made drawings after Aelbert Jacobyz. Cuyp (1620-1691); born Dordrecht (1763), died Amsterdam (1814); son of landscape painter and art dealer Cornelis Vermeulen (1732-1813).

Cornelis Vermeulen

Dutch painter and art dealer in Dordrecht, known particularly for his copies from the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century; born ca 1732, died Dordrecht (1813); father of Andries Vermeulen (1763-1814).

Jan Vermeulen

Dutch vanitas painter of the circle of Pieter Potter, Pieter van Steenwyck and the early Jan Davidsz. de Heem; born Haarlem (fl. 1638-1674).

Fra Giovanni da Verona

Multifaceted Italian artist and member of the Olivetan order (a congregaton within the Benedictine Confederation); he was a skilled engraver, illuminator, sculptor, woodcarver and architect; his wood inlays are remarkable for their use of perspective; born Verona (1457), died 1525.

Bonifazio Veronese – See Bonifazio de'Pitati

Paolo Caliari Veronese

The foremost Italian decorative painter of late Renaissance Venice who combined elements of the High Renaissance style with Mannerist elements, including complex compositional schemes that often employ a 'worm's-eye view' perspective and Michelangelesque figures in powerful foreshortened or contorted poses; active in Venice and for a short time in Mantua, Vicenza and Padua; born Verona (1528), died Venice (1588).

Antonio Verrio

Italian painter active in England; specialising in illusionistically painted ceilings and wall decorations, including those of the state rooms of Windsor Castle; in 1684 he was appointed Principal Painter to the King; born Lecce (1639), died Hampton Court, London (1707).

Paulus van Vianen

Dutch goldsmith, silversmith and jeweller who (in 1603) became Kammergoldschmied to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague, a position he retained until the end of his life; born Utrecht (ca 1570), died Prague (1613); member of a family of gold- and silver-smiths.

Anthony [Anthoni, Anthonie] Victoryns

Flemish artist active in Antwerp; a genre painter who specialised in farm interiors, pictures of peasants especially from the 1630s, and more independent works; only a few signed works are known, and his oeuvre is obscure; flourished ca 1630, died Antwerp (1655/6).

Teodorio Viero (1740-1819) – see Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Jan-Carel Vierpijl [Vierpeyl] (op.1697-1723)

Netherlandish painter of group portraits and social scenes; active 1697-1723.

Tommaso de Vigilia

Sicilian painter; active in Palermo where what remains of his work is represented in a number of churches; his style shows the influence of Catalan painting which he often merges with Marchigian and Genoese styles; op. 1451, died 1494.

van Vijse [Vijf, Vyse, Eijsen]

One of a number of 17th-century Dutch painters with this surname, including Pieter van Eijsen (1661-1669).

Francesco Villamena

Italian engraver who made few original engravings but reproduced designs of other artists, amonst them Raphael, Paolo Veronese, Federico Barocci, Girolamo Muziano and Giulio Romano; his output included frontispieces and book illustrations, religious and historical subjects, portraits, and a series of genre figures; born Assisi (1556), died Rome (1624).

Sergio Villarreal

Contemporary Mexican painter.

William Vincent

British mezzotinter and publisher; no documentary evidence has yet been found on his career; his plates all seem to belong to the 1680s, and possibly early 1690s. All or some later came into the possession of John Smith (p. 1654-1742), who reprinted them.

Leonardo [di ser Piero] da Vinci (1452-1519)

Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer; the archetype of the Renaissance man, his curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention; he is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived; born Vinci (1452), died Clos Lucé (1519).

David Vinckboons [Vinckeboons] (1576 – ca 1633)

Flemish draughtsman and landscape and genre painter; a leading figure in the transition from Mannerist tradition to the new realism in genre painting; one of the most popular and prolific painters and print designers of his time, his work has been confused with that of Pieter Brueghel the Younger; born Mechelen (1576), died Antwerp (ca 1633).

Aernout Vinckenborgh (ca 1590-1620), Flemish

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne

The last of a family of Dutch artists from Haarlem; born 1736, died 1811.

Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne, the elder (1629-1702), Dutch

Dutch painter and draughtsman; he produced drawings from his travels and a number of townscapes in pen and ink with a grey wash, and he received commissions for ceiling paintings, signboards, landscapes, portraits and other works, but his oeuvre consists primarily of vanitas still-lifes; perhaps most celebrated for the illustrated diary of his travels through Germany, Switzerland and France between 1652 and 1655; born Haarlem (1629), died Haarlem (1702); member of a family of artists.

Sebastian Virdung

German composer and theorist on musical instruments; initially chaplain and chorister at the court in Heidelberg and then in Stuttgart, he was later appointed to one of nine succentorships at Konstanz Cathedral where he educated the choirboys until he was dismissed in 1508, it is though because of his difficult temperament; his treatise Musica getuscht und Angezogen, notable for being the oldest printed treatise on musical instruments, describes and classifies musical instruments into families, and discusses notation (including tablatures for organ and lute, and recorder; born Amberg (c.1465), died p.1511.

Aurelio Virgiliano

Italian musician, known today only for his manuscript collection of virtuosic music pieces and technical instructions to which he gave the title Il Dolcimelo (ca 1600).

Matthia de Visch (fl. 1702-1765)

Peter Vischer II (1487-1528), German

German brass-caster, sculptor and draughtsman; member of a family of brass founders or redsmiths; he was intrigued with certain ideas from the Classical world and the Italian Renaissance, probably from the very beginning of his activity as an artist and craftsman in the Vischerhütteson; born Nuremberg (1487), died Nuremberg, (1528); son of the brass founder Peter Vischer I (ca 1460-1529).

Antonio Maria Visentini [Vicentino]

Italian painter engraver, architect and theorist; his etchings reproducing Canaletto's paintings of Venice helped to promote the latter internationally and changed the world's view of that city; born Venice (1688), died Venice (1782).

Cornelis Visscher (ca 1619 or ?1629 – 1662), Dutch engraver – see Adriaen Brouwer (1605/6-1638)

Nicolas (Claes) Jansz. Visscher II

Dutch draughtsman, etcher, cartographer and publisher; he drew and etched landscapes and designed and etched vignettes and borders for maps; his publishing business was one of the largest in 17th-century Amsterdam; born Amsterdam (1586 or 1587), died Amsterdam (1652).

Alvise [Luigi] Vivarini

Italian painter of altarpieces, religious and historical scenes; Vasari referred to him as "unhappy Vivarini"; born ca 1442-1453, died 1503-1505; son of the painter Antonio Vivarini (1440-1476/1484).

Nicolas Vleughels [Wleughels]

French painter, administrator and teacher of Flemish origin; he was influenced by Flemish painting (notably Rubens) and by the work of the Venetian colourists, particularly Veronese, whose works he copied; born Paris (1668), died Rome (ca 1737); son of the Flemish painter Philippe Vleughels (?1620-1694), a Flemish painter who had moved to Paris in 1642.

Nicolas Vleys

Flemish artist; active Bruges (1694), died Bruges (1703).

Hendrik (Cornelisz.) van Vliet

Dutch painter of conservative style portraits and church interiors, mostly the Oude Kerk or the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft; born Delft (ca 1611), died Delft (1675).

Arie de Vois

Dutch artist who painted in the style of his brother-in-law, Jan Steen, before adopting the polished style of Leiden'sfijnschilders ; his themes also changed: moving from peasants having fun to genre pieces and pastoral scenes; born Utrecht (1631), died Leiden (1680).

Il Volterrano = Baldassare Franceschini

Cornelis de Vos

Flemish artist and art dealer; his chief genre was portaiture, particularly of young children; his style is characterised by detailed sensitive brushwork and full-bodied colouring; some work on large commissions was delegated to him by Rubens; born Hulst (1585), died Antwerp (1651).

Marten [Martijn, Maarten, Maerten] de Vos the elder

Flemish painter and draughtsman who ranks among the best painters of altarpieces in Antwerp during the late 16th century and considered the most important figure painter in Antwerp before Rubens; provided some 1600 designs for print publishers; his drawings have been praised for their lively, industrious and generally positive character, frequently with romantic Italianate landscapes in the background; born Antwerp (1532), died Antwerp (1603).

Simon Vouet

French painter and draughtsman known for his portraits, and allegorical and religious designs for royal residences and the burgeoning hôtels and châteaux in and around Paris which introduced a new type of illusionistic decoration with steep perspective that influenced a generation of decorative painters; born Paris (1590), died Paris (1649).

Sebastian Vrancx

Flemish playwright, captain in the Civic Guard and painter of peasant scenes, brawls, church interiors, and battle pieces; born Antwerp (1573), died Antwerp (1647).

Hans Vredeman de Vries

Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer; known for his publications on garden design and his books with many examples of ornaments and perspective; born Leeuwarden (1527), died c.1607, possibly in Hamburg.

Goossen van Vreeswyk (1626- after 1689)

Much-travelled Dutch expert on mining who had an extensive knowledge of minerals; he wrote nine alchemical works, which consist of alchemical philosophy, practical instruction and recipes for preparing extracts drawn from the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; many of his works are illustrated with elaborate series of engravings which have a more symbolic and hermetic content.

Willem Vrelant [Guillaume Wyelant, Guillermo Vrelant]

Flemish illuminator; one of the most influential and commercially successful illuminators working in Bruges during the third quarter of the 1400s; his distinctive style of illumination relied on heavy black contours to outline his static figures and is notable for the use of intense primary colors along with gold for drapery highlights; born before 1430, died 1481.

Gerrit van Vucht

Dutch art dealer and painter who produced a prolific number of very similar still-lifes, of which few were signed and none dated; born ? Rotterdam (ca 1610), died Schiedam (1697).

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