Cornelis de Bie by Gonzalez Coques

Cornelis de Bie (February 10, 1627, Lier, Belgium - 1715(?), Lier, Belgium) was a Flemish, rhetorician, jurist and minor politician. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province Antwerp Arrondissement Mechelen Coordinates Area 49. ... Year 1715 (MDCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province Antwerp Arrondissement Mechelen Coordinates Area 49. ... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρητωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar). ... A jurist is a professional who studies, develops, applies or otherwise deals with the law. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ...

He was the son of the mediocre painter Adriaan de Bie and member of the rhetorician chamber Den Groeyende Boom. After his study in law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, he settled back in his hometown Lier, Belgium where he became a notary and lawyer. Rhetoric (from Greek ρητωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar). ... The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven in English) or in short K.U.Leuven, is the oldest, largest and most prominent university in Belgium. ... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province Antwerp Arrondissement Mechelen Coordinates Area 49. ... Notary can refer to either of the following two professions: Notary public. ... For the fish called lawyer, see Burbot. ...

He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. His most important work, however, is the Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst (the Golden Cabinet of the Honourable Free Art of Painting). It is an imitation of Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck and Giorgio Vasari's Vite. Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. ... Giorgio Vasaris selfportrait Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ... The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered perhaps the most famous...

He was married twice: the first time to Elisabeth Smits who died in 1662 and the second time to Isabella Caelheyt who died in 1706. He had eight children, four from each wife. Events February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. ... Events March 27 - Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia had abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia May 23 - Battle of Ramillies September 7 - The Battle of Turin in the War of Spanish Succession - forces of Austria and...

Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst (1662)

When the publisher Jan Meyssen asked Cornelis de Bie to write a book on painters, he started out to write the most important Dutch book on painters of the seventeenth century. He imitated in large parts Karel van Mander and Giorgio Vasari, but the importance of this work is that it is the only known biography for many painters of the seventeenth century. The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. ... Giorgio Vasaris selfportrait Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ...

The work was first published in 1662 in Antwerp and De Bie has prepared a second edition of the work, but that was never published and the manuscript is now in the Koninklijk Bibliotheek van België (Royal Library of Belgium) in Brussels. The work included the biographies of painters, sculptors and architects, both already deceased and living. Most of the work is written in verse and therefore, it is rather a panegyric. The full title of the work is Het Gulden Cabinet vande edele vry Schilder-Const, Ontsloten door den lanck ghewenschten Vrede tusschen de twee machtighe Croonen van Spaignien en Vrancryck, Waer-inne begrepen is den ontsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste Constminnende Geesten ende Schilders Van deze Eeuw, hier inne meest naer het leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke Rijmen ende Spreucken. There are also indications that it was rapidly set and printed and therefore, it is possible that it was mainly meant as a commercial work. For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus, written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ... For other places with the same name, see Brussels (disambiguation). ... A Panegyric is a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally high studied and undiscriminating eulogy. ...

De Bie's biographies are interspersed with amusing anecdotes. There has much been written about the historicity of these anecdotes and mainly art historians have used (and abused) these anecdotes as hard facts about the lives of painters. It is, however, clear that these anecdotes are literary motifs and the historicity is of no value.

Works

Prose

• Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst (1662) (reprint: 1971)
• Den weerschijn van 't leven in de doodt. (1680?)
• Den zedigen toetsteen van de onverdragelijcke weelde, verthoont in 't leven van den verloren soon. (1689)
• Den wegh der deughden beset met scherpe dornen van quellinghen. (1697)
• Antiquiteyten der stadt Lier, in Brabant, byeen vergadert uyt verscheyde annotatie boeken ende curieuse stukken, beginnende int jaer 762 tot 1699 (manuscript)
• Het leven van de heylige Eugenia. (1701)
• Echos weder-clanck, passende op den gheestelijcken wecker, tot godtvruchtige oeffeninghen. (1706)
• Den spiegel van de verdrayde werelt, te sien in den bedriegelijcken handel, sotte en ongeregelde manieren van het al te broos menschen-leven. (1708)
• Mengelrijmen, Meygaven, Lier-en Sneldichten (manuscript)

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Plays

• Alphonsus en Thebasile ofte herstelde onnooselheyt, tragi-comedie op den sin: Oprechte Liefde (1673)
• De cluchte van den verdraeyden advocaet (en de twee borssesnyders) verthoont binnen Lyer den 16 en 17 juny 1659. (1673)
• Den heyligen ridder Gommarus, patroon der stadt Lier, oft gewillighe verduldigheyt; op het tooneel ghebrocht door de liefhebbers van d'edele gulde, die men noemt Den groeyenden Boom, binnen de voorschreven stadt Lier, den 23 en 25 juny 1669.
• Cluchte van een misluckt overspel, op den sin: Daer d'ongheregheltheyt van een onkuys ghedacht, (1669)
• Den grooten hertoghe van Moskovien oft gheweldighe heerschappye, Bly-eyndich treurspel. (1673)
• Treurspel van de heylighe Cecilia, martelaresse, ghenoemt den Spieghel van d' Eerbaerheydt
• Cluchte van Jan Goethals en Griet, zijn wijf, bedroghen door twee geapposteerde soldaten, verbetert en vermeerdert door C. De Bie.
• De cluchte van den jaloursen dief, afbeldende d'onghetrouwicheyt, bemonden achterclap en onversaefde lichtveerdicheyt der menschen, in Reynaldo Plattebors en madam Sacatrap.
• Den verloren zoon Osias oft bekeerden Zondaer
• Het goddelijck ransoen der zielen salicheyt, in dry deelen.
• Clucht-wijse comedie van de Mahometaensche slavinne Sultana Bacherach.
• De verlichte waerheyt van Godts vleesch-gheworden woordt in de gheboorte Christi.
• 'T geloofs beproevinghe verthoont in de stantvastighe verduldigheyt van de seer edele Roomsche princesse de heylighe Eugenia, blyeyndigh treurspel.
• Beschermde suyverheyt in de twee heylige Theodora en Didymus, martelaren om 't Rooms geloof onthooft, treurspel.
• Kluchte van Hans Holleblock, geusen predicant.
• Vermaekelijcke klucht van Roeland den Klapper oft Hablador Roelando
• Wraak van verkrachte kuysheydt, bewesen in 't ramp-salig leven van de princerse Theocrina omteert van den ontuchtigen en bloetgierigen Amurath
• De klucht van den nieuw-gesinden doctoor, meester Quinten-Quack en Cortisaen sijnen bly-geestigen knecht
• Kluchtwijse Commedie van de ontmaskerde liefde
• Leer-gierich ondersoeck der verlichte duysterheyt en weet-lievende kennisse der waerheyt, bewesen in 't Rooms christen gheloof door den heylighen Epictetus en den seer edelen en overschoonen Astion
• Het vlaemsche masker van Colonel Spindeler, archlistelijck ontdeckt aen de lichtveerdige françoisen door Oniati, borgemeester van Brugge, anno 1658
• Lijden sonder wraak, of de Armoede van grave Florelus, bontgenoot van Vranckrijck, blyeyndich treurspel;
• De klucht van den Subtijlen Smidt, of het vinden van 't maet-ghesangh oft musica;
• De klucht van Gijs Snuffelaer en 't lichtveerdigh Pleuntjen, genoemt d'occasie maekt den dief;""
• De comedie der Liersche Furie, of de kettersche verradery op den 14 october 1595;
• De klucht van den bedroghen soldaet;
• De klucht van den stouten Boer oft gheveynsten Auditeur;
• De comedie van Mas Aniello in de beroerte van Napels, ghenoemt: Op en Nedergangh van 's menschen leven.
• Blyeyndigh treurspel van de gravinne Nympha en Carel, hertogh van Calabrien, of wraak-lustighe liefde;
• De klucht van de ramp-salighe liefde in den ongetrouwen minnaer;
• Het droef-eyndigh toch geluck-saligh Treurspel van de twee heylighe martelaren Crispinus en Crispianus, of Standtvastighe Lijdtsaemheydt;
• De klucht van den bedroghen duyvel der onkuysheyt en Deep (sic) makenden geusen Predicant in 't spelen met de kaert;
• De comedie van Apollonius en Hildebertus, twee verliefde minnaren van edel geslacht, of de verloren gelegentheyt;
• De klucht van de bedroghen gierigheyt in Judas en de bedwonghen vrientschap van Pilatus.

References

• Lemmens, "Introduction", in: Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst, 1971
• Kalff, G., Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche letterkunde. Deel 5. J.B. Wolters, Groningen, 1910.
• Willems, J.F. (red.), Belgisch museum voor de Nederduitsche tael- en letterkunde en de geschiedenis des vaderlands (Vierde deel). Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Nederduitsche Taal- en Letterkunde, Gent 1840.
• Calu, P., Selden vrolijck is ghesont, Altijdt vrolijck t'lichaem wondt. Anekdotiek in Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilderconst (1662) van Cornelis de Bie, s.n., Leuven, 2007.