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Article: Johan Gregor van der Schardt: Bildhauer bei Kaiser Maximilian II., am danischen Hof und bei Tycho Brahe.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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What a mystery! The artist was called Johan (or Jan) Gregor or Georg (from a patronymic Juriansz?) van der Schardt (Sart, Schack, Skare, Zar, Zara, d'Zora), in Italy Giovanni Fiamengo, and in Denmark Mester Hans Billedestober. Honnens calls him Johan Gregor van der Schardt and establishes that he was born in Nijmegen around 1530-31, trained as an artist in the Low Countries, studied in Rome and Florence during the 1560s, then worked for a time in the Veneto and in Bologna in 1568-69, where he was recruited to serve the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II, moving back and forth between Vienna, Prague, and Nuremberg during the early 1570s. Tycho Brahe made contact with him ...