LINT, Hendrik Frans van

Hendrik Frans van Lint, called Lo Studio, Flemish painter, active in Italy. A native of Antwerp, Van Lint moved definitively to Rome in circa 1710 and joined the confraternity of Northern painters working there, called the SchildersbentGLOSSARYA fraternal organization founded in 1623 by a group of Netherlandish artists living in Rome for social intercourse and mutual assistance. Its members called themselves Bentvueghels or 'birds of a flock' and they had individual Bentnames - for example Pieter van Laer, one of the early leaders, was called Bamboccio. In 1720 the Schildersbent was dissolved and prohibited by papal decree because of its rowdiness and drunkenness.. He soon earned his nickname 'Lo Studio' due to the painstaking precision with which he rendered both the figures and architecture in his paintings, and he often included his pseudonym when signing his works. By the 1730s he had already made a name for himself painting vedute of buildings and monuments in and around Rome.

As well as painting topographical views of the sites and monuments of Rome Van Lint specialised in painting overtly classicalGLOSSARYRelating to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome (classical Antiquity). The classical world played a profoundly important role in the Renaissance, with Italian scholars, writers, and artists seeing their own period as the rebirth (the "renaissance") of classical values after the Middle Ages. The classical world was considered the golden age for the arts, literature, philosophy, and politics. Concepts of the classical, however, changed greatly from one period to the next. Roman literature provided the starting point in the 14th century, scholars patiently finding, editing and translating a wide range of texts. In the 15th century Greek literature, philosophy and art - together with the close study of the remains of Roman buildings and sculptures-expanded the concept of the classical and ensured it remained a vital source of ideas and inspiration. subjects with bacchanals, gods and goddesses set in arcadian landscapes which are heavily inspired by Claude Lorrain. He often signed in the Italian form of his name: Enrico.