1src: https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/70092/fullThe Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew1523Dirk Jacobsz. Vellert90.028.00118761433903Antwerp in the first half of the sixteenth century was the most important city in what is now Belgium and the Netherlands. A port with trading connections throughout Europe, it was the artistic center of the Lowlands, where a group of artists called the Antwerp Mannerists flourished in the second decade of the century. In the 1520s and 1530s, the bright, decorative colors, exotic settings, and energetic, elongated figures of the Mannerists were moderated, and the power and dignity of the Italian Renaissance masters were infused into their style. Dirk Vellert responded to this synthesis. Although he made a number of panel paintings, the major part of his work seems to have been paintings on small glass panels and roundels, prints, and the preparatory drawings for these works. He had a love of everyday subjects, such as a drunken drummer or students and adults in a schoolroom, that betrays his northern roots. This engraving, however, shows a profound debt to Albrecht Dürer, especially in the landscape, as well as echoes of the Antwerp Mannerists in the profusion of detail covering the whole sheet and the formalized, wonderfully decorative waves spreading out in front of the boat. This design was copied, perhaps by Vellert himself, in a glass roundel dated 1537.90.028.001_Disc8006_80065036Dirk Jacobsz. Vellert