Everything about Maria Tesselschade Visscher totally explained
Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, also called
Maria Tesselschade Roemersdochter Visscher or
Tesselschade (
March 25 1594,
Amsterdam –
June 20 1649) was a
Dutch poet and
engraver.
Life
Tesselschade was the youngest daughter of
Roemer Visscher. She got the name
Tesselschade ("Damage on Tessel"), because her father lost a ship near the Dutch island
Texel on the day of her birth.
She and her sister
Anna Visscher were the only two women members of the
Muiderkring, the group of
Dutch Golden Age intellectuals who met at
Muiden Castle. She is often characterised as a
muse of the group, and attracted the admiration of its members such as its organiser
Hooft,
Huygens,
Barlaeus,
Bredero,
Heinsius,
Vondel and
Jacob Cats.
In their correspondence, she's described as attractive, musically talented, and a skilled translator and commentator from Latin, Greek and Italian. They also praised her skill at singing, painting, carving,
etching on glass and
tapestry work. The
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has an example of her engraving work, a römer drinking glass engraved with the motto
Sic Soleo Amicos ("this is how I treat my friends").
In 1623, she married a ship's officer, Allard Crombalch. After he died in 1634, Huygens and Barlaeus proposed marriage to her, offers she rejected.
In remembrance of Tesselschade there are several streets named after her, such as the
Tesselschadestraat or Tesselschadelaan in
Eindhoven,
Amsterdam,
Zwolle,
Leiden and
Leeuwarden.
Works
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The best known sentence of Tesselschade is
"Elck zijn waerom", meaning "everyone has his reason".
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