LAMPSONIUS, Dominicus

Flemish humanist, poet, and artist. Through his writings, a great deal is known about engravers and printers of the era. In 1572 he published under his own name a series of twenty-three engraved portraits of artists from the Low Countries, which was called Portraits of some Celebrated Artists of the Low Countries (Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies). Lampsonius provided poems in Latin to accompany the individual portraits. This work was previously being prepared by the engraver Hieronymous Cock, who died before it was completed. In 1576, Lampsonius finished his only known extant work of art, a Crucifixion scene.

Lampsonius was a correspondent of Giorgio Vasari and Giulio Clovio.