Frans Denys was a Flemish Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 painter.

Biography

He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1631 and got married the next year to Martina Vleckhamer, who died in 1647, so he was married for the second time when his son Jacob

Jacob Denys

-Biography:Denys was born and died in Antwerp. According to Houbraken he went to Rome to study the masters and spent three years copying the works of Raphael and Giulio Romano. His patrons were the Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, and the Duke of Florence,...

 was born. He became court painter to Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma

Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma

Ranuccio II Farnese was the sixth Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1646 until his death nearly 50 years later.-Birth and Succession:...

 and also painted for Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria

Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria

Not to be confused with Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Netherlands.Isabella Clara of Austria was the eldest surviving daughter of Leopold V, Archduke of Austria and his wife Claudia de' Medici. She was a member of the House of Habsburg and was an Archduchess of Austria.- Family :Isabella...

. He was the teacher of the painters Jan de Duyts and Ignatius Janssen. He moved to Mantua where he later died.

External links

• Frans Denys on Artnet
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