Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Albert Flamen (c.1620–after 1669) was a Dutch engraver. Very little is known about Flamen; indeed, historians have previously argued that he was Flemish, and recent scholarship has tended to call him French, as his prints were published in Paris. The most comprehensive recent study of Flamen contends on the basis of biographical data drawn from the FIchier Laborde housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris that in all likelihood he was born some time before 1620.Flamen was a prolific engraver who produced works for a number of patrons including Guillaume Tronson, Conseiller du Roy; Gilles Foucquet, son of Nicolas and also Conseiller du Roy; Monsieur le marquis d’Illiers, de Chantemelle; Monsieur de Seue, Abbé de l’Isle; as Catherine Levesque has pointed out, these patrons tended to be closely allied to the Royalist cause during the struggles known collectively as "La Fronde". His artistic technique is variable in its quality, but the art historian Robert-Dumesnil has provided a fair assessment that is quoted by Graham: "“Il mêlait la pointe sèche et le burin à son travail d’eau-forte qu’il exécutait avec une pointe fine, nette et légère, et qui offre un ensemble très-approchant de la manière de Winceslas [sic] Hollar. [He mixed dry-point and burin with his work in etching which he executed with a fine, sharp and light line, and which offers a whole very near the manner of Wenceslas Hollar.]”The most well-known prints by Flamen are his French landscape etchings and his studies of both salt-water and fresh-water fish and of birds, but he also engraved the figures for several influential French emblem books, including the anonymous Devises et emblemes d'amour often attributed to him but of which he denies being the author (first published Paris, 1648), Augustin Chesneau's Orpheus Eucharisticus (Paris, 1657) and Adrien Gambart's La Vie symbolique du bienheureux François de Sales (Paris, 1664). The article on Flamen in the French wikipedia provides a comprehensive list of his publications. The current estimate of Flamen's total production runs to some 625 items, of which perhaps 40% are emblematic, with the majority thus falling into various other categories.. }
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- Albert_Flamen abstract "Albert Flamen (c.1620–after 1669) was a Dutch engraver. Very little is known about Flamen; indeed, historians have previously argued that he was Flemish, and recent scholarship has tended to call him French, as his prints were published in Paris. The most comprehensive recent study of Flamen contends on the basis of biographical data drawn from the FIchier Laborde housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris that in all likelihood he was born some time before 1620.Flamen was a prolific engraver who produced works for a number of patrons including Guillaume Tronson, Conseiller du Roy; Gilles Foucquet, son of Nicolas and also Conseiller du Roy; Monsieur le marquis d’Illiers, de Chantemelle; Monsieur de Seue, Abbé de l’Isle; as Catherine Levesque has pointed out, these patrons tended to be closely allied to the Royalist cause during the struggles known collectively as "La Fronde". His artistic technique is variable in its quality, but the art historian Robert-Dumesnil has provided a fair assessment that is quoted by Graham: "“Il mêlait la pointe sèche et le burin à son travail d’eau-forte qu’il exécutait avec une pointe fine, nette et légère, et qui offre un ensemble très-approchant de la manière de Winceslas [sic] Hollar. [He mixed dry-point and burin with his work in etching which he executed with a fine, sharp and light line, and which offers a whole very near the manner of Wenceslas Hollar.]”The most well-known prints by Flamen are his French landscape etchings and his studies of both salt-water and fresh-water fish and of birds, but he also engraved the figures for several influential French emblem books, including the anonymous Devises et emblemes d'amour often attributed to him but of which he denies being the author (first published Paris, 1648), Augustin Chesneau's Orpheus Eucharisticus (Paris, 1657) and Adrien Gambart's La Vie symbolique du bienheureux François de Sales (Paris, 1664). The article on Flamen in the French wikipedia provides a comprehensive list of his publications. The current estimate of Flamen's total production runs to some 625 items, of which perhaps 40% are emblematic, with the majority thus falling into various other categories.".