Portrait of Erard de la Marck
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
c. 1528 - c. 1530
Erard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège, had a reputation as a ruthless inquisitor (opponent of heresy), but also as a great patron of the arts and a protagonist of the modern Renaissance style in the northern and southern Netherlands.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · Image: Rijksmuseum, Public domain · Text: Rijksmuseum, CC0