Lambert Lombard

Lambert Lombard ( * 1505/6 in Liege, † 1566 ) was a Renaissance painter and architect and humanist.

Lombard was an artist with many interests; Apart from painting and architecture, he dealt with archeology, literature, mythology, and numismatics.

He received his artistic training in Antwerp, and from there he traveled to Zeeland Middelburg to there among the Italian-style painters nacheifernden January Mabuse (Jean Gossart ) and Jan van Scorel to work. Later he made several journeys that took him to France and Germany. In 1537 the Prince-Bishop of Liège Erard de la Marck sent him as a member of a high-level delegation headed by the English Cardinal Reginald Pole to Rome to purchase works of art and to expand his artistic skill. In Rome he studied works of the Italian Renaissance, particularly those of Michelangelo and Raphael. Back in his homeland, he founded the first art academy north of the Alps.

Lombard influenced the reconstruction of Liège, with its Renaissance architecture. Among his students Otto van Veen and Frans Floris.

Some works

• Paintings cycle " virtuous women "
• The altar of the church of Saint- Denis in Liege
• The multiplication of the loaves
• A self-portrait
• Renaissance portal of the church of St. Jacques in Liège ( 1558 )
• More than 1000 drawings
• The windows of the former Lambert Liege Cathedral

On the occasion of his 500th birthday, the city of Liege in the summer of 2006 an exhibition of work Lombards and environment.

• His portrait adorns 1962-1977 a Belgian 100 franc banknote