# SPRANGER, Bartholomaeus [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1546–1611 - Profession: painter - School: Flemish ## Biography Flemish painter from Antwerp who worked in Paris \(c.1565\) at the same time as Primaticcio and Niccolo dell' Abbate, and in Rome \(c.1567-75\) as an assistant to Taddeo Zuccaro, and in Vienna, for the Emperor Maximilian II, in 1575. He later worked for Rudolf II in Prague, where he died. He was a typical representative of late Mannerism, using numerous nude figures in unlikely attitudes to fill his compositions, which derive ultimately from Correggio and Parmigianino. The engravings of Goltzius made his works very widely known. In Haarlem, besides Goltzius, he influenced Cornelisz. and van Mander, and in Utrecht Wtewael. He is well represented in the Vienna Gallery, but there are other examples in Antwerp, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland Ohio, London \(NG\), Munich, Paris and elsewhere. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Kings]() - [Allegory of Justice and Prudence]() - [Glaucus and Scylla]() - [God the Father with the Holy Spirit and Angels]() - [Hercules and Omphale]() - [Hercules and Omphale]() - [Hermaphroditus and the Nymph Salmacis]() - [Hermes and Athena]() - [Last Judgment \(detail\)]() - [Last Judgment \(detail\)]() - [Last Judgment \(detail\)]() - [Last Judgment \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()