Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

… and because art likes to be near wealth so as to be maintained with rich rewards, Johannes went to live in the town of Bruges where all manner of merchants abounded…

…He had been to Italy and attended the universal school of painters of Rome – where he displayed much diligence in drawing and painting with regard to figures as well as architecture

…Lambert has been to various countries, firstly to different parts of the Netherlands, also Germany and France; (…) he managed to seek out antiquities (…) when in Italy…

…In Venice he was a worthy pupil of the great Titian whose manner of painting he not only followed but which he so closely imitated that eventually one was unable to distinguish their hands…

…through his diligence and art he became the painter to the Serene Emperor whom he accompanied as a fellow-traveller to various countries, for example Tunis in Barbary in 1535; for the Emperor gave him many commissions to depict his wars, deeds and conquests, from which drawings beautiful tapestries were subsequently made…

...the road to virtue is commonly rough or hard. He visited Italy and other countries and was at least one of the first to have brought the correct manner of composing and making pictures full of nudes and all kinds of allegories from Italy to Flanders…