Maarten van Heemskerck

Heemskerck brings Rome home to Haarlem — muscular twisting bodies, ruins and antique fragments crowding the background, and hard, metallic Northern colour.

Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) was a painter from Netherlands, associated with Mannerism.

A late-Renaissance style of elongated figures, complex spiralling poses, and unnatural colour, prizing elegance and tension over calm harmony. Mannerism →