Artist

Maarten van Heemskerck

1498–1574 · born in Heemskerk · died in Haarlem

Maarten van Heemskerck was a Dutch painter born in the village of Heemskerk in 1498. He lived in Haarlem but traveled to Rome from 1532 to 1536, where he drew the ancient ruins, and these drawings are now an important record of Renaissance Rome. He died in Haarlem in 1574.