Infobox scientist name Pierre Belon image Belon Pierre 1517 1564.jpg image size alt caption Pierre Belon birth date 1517 birth place C rans Foulletourte death date 1564 death place residence France citizenship FRA nationality France French ethnicity fields Unbulleted list Ichthyology Natural history workplaces alma mater Pierre Belon 1517 1564 was a France French natural history naturalist , deeply interested in classical Antiquity , who extolled the happy and desirable renaissance of all kinds of good disciplines in his lifetime. ref Belon, Dedicatory Epistle of Observations , quoted in Erwin Panofsky , Renaissance and Renascences , 2nd ed. 1972 17. ref He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon Le Mans du Mans , or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus . Belon was born in 1517 at the hamlet of Soulleti re near C rans Foulletourte . ref http nla.gov.au nla.pic an9455383 douard Morren, Louis Cri , A la memoire de Pierre Belon, du Mans, 1517 1564 . ref Encouraged and supported by Ren du Bellay, bishop of Le Mans. He studied medicine at Paris , where he took the degree of doctor, and then became a pupil of the botanist Valerius Cordus 1515 1544 at Wittenberg , with whom he travelled in Germany . On his return to France he was taken under the patronage of Cardinal Fran ois de Tournon , who furnished him with means for undertaking an extensive scientific journey. Starting in 1546, he travelled through Greece , Crete , Asia Minor , Egypt , Arabia and Palestine , and returned in 1549. A full account of his Observations Pierre Belon Observations on this journey, with illustrations, was published in Paris, 1553. Returning to the household of Cardinal de Tournon at Rome for the conclave, Belon encountered the naturalists Guillaume Rondelet and Hippolyte Salviani . He returned to Paris with his copious notes and began to publish. In 1557 he travelled again, this time in northern Italy, Savoy, the Dauphin and Auvergne. Belon was highly favored ... more details
and hardly ever by Art history historians of Art . ref Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences ... name panofsky Erwin Panofsky Panofsky, Erwin . Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , New York ... more details
Image Van Eyck Arnolfini Portrait.jpg thumb 280px The Arnolfini Portrait , Jan van Eyck , 1434. Oil on oak panel, 84.5cm 62.5 cm. National Gallery , London. File El Descendimiento, by Rogier van der Weyden, from Prado in Google Earth.jpg thumb 360px The Descent from the Cross Rogier van der Weyden The Descent from the Cross , Rogier van der Weyden , c. 1435. Oil on oak panel, 220cm 262 cm. Museo del Prado , Madrid Early Netherlandish painting refers to the work of artists, also known as the Flemish Primitives , active in the Low Countries during the 15th and 16th century Northern Renaissance , especially in the flourishing Burgundian Netherlands Burgundian cities of Bruges and Ghent . The period begins approximately with the careers of Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck ref By the turn of the 17th century van Eyck was already championed as the new Apelles of northern European painting by Karel van Mander . ref and continues at least to the death of Gerard David in 1523. ref Spronk, 7 ref The end of the period is disputed many scholars extend it to the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1569, or the start of the Dutch Revolt in 1566 or 1568, or to the start of the 17th century. The period corresponds to the early and high Italian Renaissance but is seen as an independent artistic culture, separate from the Renaissance humanism that characterised developments in central Italy. ref name janson Janson, H.W. Janson s History of Art Western Tradition . New York Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN 0 13 193455 4 ref Because the art of these painters represent the culmination of the northern European Middle Ages Mediaeval artistic heritage and the incorporation of Renaissance ideals, it is categorised as belonging to both the Early Renaissance painting Early Renaissance and the International Gothic Late Gothic . The major artists of this period include Campin, ref Campin is usually identified as the Master of Flemalle. See Campbell, Lorne. Robert Campin, the Master of Fl malle and the M ... more details
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