Self-Portrait

This artist inspired dithyrambs from both of the great 16th-century historians of art, Giorgio Vasari (“Of all the Flemish artists I have named, none is superior to Lambert Lombard of Liege) and Karel van Mander (“One can confidently rank him among the best Netherlandish painters, past and present”). A painter and poet, archeologist and antiquarian, and an expert on architecture and perspective, Lombard was the head of a large studio.