Roemer Visscher
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Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 – 19 February 1620) was a successful Dutch merchant, the first Dutch underwriter and writer of the Dutch Golden Age.
Life
Visscher was born in and lived in
Gelderse Kade in Amsterdam, varying from painters to poets. Roemer was the father of three daughters Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Gertruid, and Anna Visscher.[1]
Works
The
. 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)
References
- ^ Geoffrey Cotterell, "Amsterdam: The Life of a City". Little, Brown & Company 1972.
External links
- Sinnepoppen digital version [1]
- T'lof van rethorica - digital version (from the work Brabbeling)
- Information and picture of a page from Sinnepoppen
- Roemer Visscher (1547-1620) - Imaginary pictures of Roemer Visscher
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