Maria Tesselschade Visscher
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox artist Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher (25 March 1594 – 20 June 1649), also called Maria Tesselschade Roemersdochter Visscher (Template:IPA), was a Dutch poet and glass engraver.
Life
Tesselschade was born in Amsterdam, the youngest of three daughters of poet and humanist Roemer Visscher.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> She was given the name Tesselschade ("Damage on Tessel"), because her father lost ships near the Dutch island Texel on Christmas Eve 1593, three months before her birth, to remember that 'worldly wealth could be gone instantly.'
She and her sister, Anna, were the only female members of the Muiderkring, the group of Dutch Golden Age intellectuals who met at Muiden Castle. She is often characterised as a muse of the group and attracted the admiration of its members, such as its organiser Hooft, Huygens, Barlaeus, Bredero, Heinsius, Vondel and Jacob Cats.
In their correspondence, she is described as attractive, musically talented, and a skilled translator and commentator from French and Italian.<ref>The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, Simon Schama, HarperCollins, 1987; Template:ISBN</ref> They also praised her skill at singing, painting, carving, glass engraving and tapestry work.<ref>History of Holland, George Edmundson, Cambridge University Press, 1922 ebook, ebooksread.com Template:Webarchive</ref>
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has an example of her engraving work, a römer drinking glass engraved with the motto Sic Soleo Amicos ("this is how I treat my friends").<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1623, she married a ship's officer, Allard Crombalch. After he died in 1634, Huygens and Barlaeus proposed marriage to her, offers which she rejected.
Legacy
In remembrance of Tesselschade there are several streets named after her, such as Tesselschadestraat and Tesselschadelaan in Alkmaar, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Zwolle, Leiden and Leeuwarden.Template:Citation needed
References
Further reading
- Lennep, J, Herman F. C. Kate, and W P. Hoevenaar. Galerij Van Beroemde Nederlanders Uit Het Tijdvak Van Frederik Hendrik. Utrecht: L.E. Bosch en Zoon, 1868.
External links
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- Maria Tesselschade Visscher - digital version of all her poems Template:In lang
- Visscher, Tesselschade Roemersdr., Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (in Dutch)
- 1594 births
- 1649 deaths
- 16th-century Dutch women
- 17th-century Dutch poets
- 17th-century Dutch women writers
- 17th-century Dutch writers
- Dutch women poets
- Engravers from Amsterdam
- Muiderkring
- Writers from Amsterdam
- Dutch Golden Age writers
- Burials at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
- Glass engravers
- Dutch women engravers
- 17th-century Dutch engravers
- 17th-century Dutch women artists
- Italian–Dutch translators
- Dutch glass artists
- Women glass artists