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Also Known As Ogier Ghiselin de Busbeck
Born 1522 • Flanders
Died October 28, 1592 (aged 70) • France
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
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Marble bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, shown with short hair and draped clothing, displayed against a black background.
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Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
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Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing.
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Charles-Joseph, prince de Ligne, detail of a painting by Leclercq; in the collection of the Prince de Ligne, Beloeil, Belgium.
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Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
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Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
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