LUCAS van LEYDEN. – Flemish painter and engraver, born, perhaps, in May or June 1494, died at Leyden between May and August 1533. The earliest documents relating to him date from 1514, concerning his enlistment in the city troops.
His fame is chiefly bound up with his engravings, of evangelical, historical, allegorical and satirical subjects, directly dependent on the spirit and technique of Dürer. Even his notable pictorial work is greatly indebted to his graphic activity; his problems of composition, space and expression matured under Italian influence, so that in his original genre paintings – such as the *Chess Players*, the *Card Games*, etc., of which various copies exist, and the *Sermon in Church* in the Amsterdam Museum (c. 1517) – and in the romantic expressiveness of human physiognomy, as in the *Self-Portrait* in the Brunswick Museum, in the portraits both feminine and masculine from Richmond, London, Rehencz, Groningen, etc., there are lively echoes of the plastic statuary of Mannerism and traces of Leonardo’s chiaroscuro, especially visible in the *Last Judgment* in the Leyden Museum and in *Lot and his Daughters* in the Louvre. There are also numerous panels of religious subject in Philadelphia, Aix-la-Chapelle, Leyden, Mo-
Lucas van Leyden – *Self-Portrait* – Brunswick, Museum.
GLASBENOG ZADOVA, Zagreb 1934, pp. 56 ff.), intending to publish a critical and complete edition of L.’s works, who was one of the earliest and most renowned erotic musicians.