Willem Thibaut, Tybaut, or Tibout (1524–1597), was a

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painter.

Biography

According to the

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, Thibaut lived and worked in Haarlem, but made the cartoons for the two stained-glass windows in Sint Janskerk in 1570. According to

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, who never understood why

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never included glass painters in his ''Schilderboeck'', Thibaut was famous enough to be mentioned in

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's praise of Haarlem with the words ''How masterly he could write on glass!''. Thibaut was also the inventor of the ''Counts of Holland'' print series that was later reprinted by

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and Michiel Vosmeer (1578–1616) in 1578 in Antwerp. This series of prints was published to accompany a reprint of Melis Stoke's ''Hollandse Jaar-Boeken of Rijm-Kronijk'' in 1699 by Cornelis van Alkemade. The addendum to the title; ''Met de Afbeeldingen van alle de HOLLANDSE GRAVEN, Geschetst naar de aaloude schilderijen der Karmeliten te Haarlem'' meant that the prints were used based on the frescoes found after the

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in the Carmelite monastery in Haarlem. These frescoes were copied by Thibaut and used to make a stained glass series in Leiden that are now in the possession of the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal. The frescoes were uncovered after the paintings hanging over them with the same subjects were removed to Haarlem city hall. According to Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert's biographer, Thibaut was friends with

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, and designed prints for Coornhert. These engravings were produced in 1556-1557 and published by Hieronymus Cock, and all had to do with the foolishness of man.

Gallery

File:Willem Thibaut - Ada -1588 - Lakenhal.jpg, Ada, countess of Holland, Lakenhal. File:Ada de Hollande.png, Ada in Michiel Vosmeer's book''Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae, Domini Frisiae, Industria Guilielmi Thybauti, excudebat Christophorus Plantinus Philippo Gallaeo, 1578, Michiel Vosmeer, Christopher Plantin,

, Antwerp, Plantin, 1578. File:Willem Thibaut - Count Diederick of Holland and Zeeland - 1587- Lakenhal.jpg, Dirk, count of Holland, Lakenhal File:Portret van Dirk VI, graaf van Holland Theodoricus Sextus (titel op object) Graven en gravinnen van Holland en Zeeland (serietitel) Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae (serietitel), RP-P-1906-2537.jpg, Dirk in Michiel Vosmeer's book.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thibaut, Willem 1524 births 1597 deaths Dutch Renaissance painters Artists from Haarlem