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3 unusual facts about Guild of Saint Luke


Atelier

In medieval Europe such a way of working was often enforced by local guild regulations, of the painters' Guild of Saint Luke if there was one, and those of other guilds for other crafts.

Bernardino Fasolo

He is known to have been a member of the council of the Guild of Genoa in 1520, but no dates can be given of his birth or death.

Jan Moninckx

Well-known was Gijsbert Moninckx, a member of the Guild of Saint Luke in The Hague in 1605.


Abraham Willaerts

He trained with his father, becoming a member of the Utrecht guild of painters in 1624, and studied under Jan van Bijlert in Utrecht and with Simon Vouet in Paris.

Frans de Momper

Frans de Momper (17 October 1603-between 1660 and 1661), a Flemish landscape painter, who was a native of Antwerp, is inscribed in the ' Liggere' of the Guild of St. Luke in that city in 1629-30.


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