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Marcus Antonius Pallas (died AD 62) was a prominent Greek freedman and secretary during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Claudius and Nero. His younger brother was Marcus Antonius Felix, a procurator of ludaea Province. According to Tacitus, Pallas and Felix descended from the Greek Kings of Arcadia.
Sanderus tells us in his Sanderus Apologidion that the biggest inspiration for his Flandria Illustrata was the Theatrum sive Hollandiae Comitatus et urbium nova descriptio Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius (Boxhorn Nl), which in 1632 was published by the Amsterdam based publisher and engraver Henricus Hondius.
Willem Gerard van der Grijp: 9 May 1796 10 November 1796 Goes [44] Stefanus van Gulick: 1 March 1796 31 August 1797 Oirschot [45] Petrus Franciscus Guljé: 1 March 1796 31 August 1797 Veghel [46] Antony Coenraad Willem van Haersolte: 29 April 1796 10 November 1796 Kampen [47] Johan Willem Simon van Haersolte: 1 March 1796 31 August 1797 Elst [48]
Johannes Antonides van der Linden was the son of the physician Antonius Hendrikszoon van der Linden (1570/1-1633), and grandson of Heinrich Anton Nerdenus (1546–1614; a professor at the University of Franeker). He initially attended the Latin School in his hometown, where his father taught.
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches.
Less common are van het and van 't, which use the similar but grammatically neuter article het. The contraction ver- , based on van der , is also common and can be written as a single word with the rest of the surname; an example being Johannes Vermeer ( van der meer "of the lake ").
Anton van Dale (Anthonie, Antonius) (8 November 1638, in Haarlem – 28 November 1708) was a Dutch Mennonite preacher, physician and writer on religious subjects, described by the contemporary theologian Jean Le Clerc as an enemy of superstition. [1] He was a critic of witch-hunting. [2]
The copy of Pallas and Arachne was then painted into the background of the scene in Las Meninas, which would go on to be one of the most recognized and analyzed canvases in the history of western art. [5] [6] [7] A copy by Rubens of Velázquez's favorite work, Titian's The Rape of Europa, was owned by The Royal Collection of Philip IV.