The Romanists painted mainly religious and mythological works, often using complex compositions and depicting naked human bodies in an anatomically correct way but with contrived poses.
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Maerten de Vos was further one of the founders of the Guild of Romanists, which was established in 1572 in Antwerp's Cathedral of Our Lady.
23.
Their house was " a nest of Romanists ", who, of all men, could least make good their claim to wage war against the Parliament.
24.
Although there is no record of his Italian journey, on his return to Antwerp, he became a member of the " Guild of Romanists ".
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By drawing on mythological subject matter, the Romanists introduced new themes in Northern art that corresponded with the interests and tastes of their patrons with a humanist education.
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In 1632 a third reply, " The Whetstone of Reproof, by T . T ., Sacristan and Catholike Romanist ", appeared at Douai.
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After becoming a master in the Guild of St . Luke in 1593, van Veen took numerous commissions for church decorations, including altarpieces for the Romanists in 1606.
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He differed from most Romanists in that he was a native of the northern Netherlands and not of Flanders and that he remained most of his life in the northern Netherlands.
29.
In 1854, he opened a theological college at Cuddesdon, now known as Ripon College Cuddesdon, which was afterwards the subject of some controversy on account of its alleged Romanist tendencies.
30.
Although he never visited Italy, he belongs to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists, who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting, in his case especially by Raphael.
