Roemer Visscher
Illustration — Imaginary portrait of Roemer Visscher • Illustration — Drawing of the coat of arms of Roemer Visscher Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 – 19 February 1620) was a successful Dutch merchant, the first Dutch underwriter and writer of the Dutch Golden Age.
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Roemer Visscher
Album "Vaderlandsche Historie", published by "De Zuid-Hollandsche" Koffie- en Theehandel, Rotterdam. Estimated 1926 · Public domain
- Born
- 1547 · Amsterdam.
- Died
- 1620 · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- poet · patron of the arts · merchant · writer
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Imaginary portrait of Roemer Visscher • Illustration — Drawing of the coat of arms of Roemer Visscher Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 – 19 February 1620) was a successful Dutch merchant, the first Dutch underwriter and writer of the Dutch Golden Age.
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Visscher was born in and lived in Amsterdam and was an important and central figure of the cultural scene there and member of the rederijkerskamer De Eglantier with as slogan "In liefde bloeiende" ("Blossoming in love"). Other members of this scene were the Dutch writers P.C. Hooft, Bredero and Vondel. Vondel called Visschers house "het saligh Roemers huys" ("delightful house of Roemer"), because artists of all kinds visited his house on the Gelderse Kade in Amsterdam, varying from painters to poets. Roemer was the father of three daughters Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Gertruid, and Anna Visscher.
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The humanistic and moralistic content of his works belongs to the period of the Renaissance, although the form was more conservative and characteristic to the rederijkers. Visscher was a specialist in the epigram, but he also wrote emblemata. The emblemata is a genre in which pictures are accompanied by one or two rhyming sentences. An example of the emblemata is Visschers Sinnepoppen. One emblema is called "Elck wat wils" which is still a common expression in Dutch, meaning "To each his own". Among his works are: • T'loff vande mutse, ende van een blaewe scheen (1612) • Brabbeling (1614) • Sinnepoppen (1614)
This might look like a 17th-century painting at first sight, but you’ll soon notice your mistake if you look carefully. It is actually a 19th century work by the historic painter Jan Adam Kruseman (1804-1862), showing one of Muiderslot castle’s most enduring myths: that of the Muiderkring. If you read the letters of P.C. Hooft, you might think that he was in touch with everyone who mattered in t
Jan Adam Kruseman · Muiderslot
Beschrijving Roemer Visscher (1547 / 19-02-1620) Dichter, koopman en assuradeur in Amsterdam. Het portret is niet betrouwbaar.
Caspari, Hendrik Willem (1770-1829)
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- 1.Geoffrey Cotterell, "Amsterdam: The Life of a City". Little, Brown & Company 1972.
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