Otto Van Veen: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

By Raya Yotova

Otto van Veen is a painter, master of the drawings and a humanist, mostly active in Antwerp and Brussels at 16th and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was famous for managing a large studio in Antwerp, which produces multiple emblems and coats of arms, and that he was a teacher of Peter Paul Rubens. His role as a classically educated humanist has strongly influenced the young Rubens, who later took on this role.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publisher s13381
• Release date: Jan 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9788829590391

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Foreword

Otto van Veen is a painter, master of the drawings and a humanist, mostly active in Antwerp and Brussels at 16th and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was famous for managing a large studio in Antwerp, which produces multiple emblems and coats of arms, and that he was a teacher of Peter Paul Rubens. His role as a classically educated humanist has strongly influenced the young Rubens, who later took on this role.

He was born around 1556 in Leiden, where his father was a Burgomaster. He studied for many artists for a while before leaving for Rome