Jan Luyken
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Jan Luyken (April 16 1649, Amsterdam - April 5 1712, Amsterdam) was a Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver.
His name is also shown as Johannes Luiken.
At his twenty-sixth, he had a religious experience that inspired him to write moralistic poetry.
He illustrated the 1685 edition of the Martyrs Mirror with 104 copper etchings. Thirty of these plates survive and are part of The Mirror of the Martyrs exhibit.
He also published Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") in 1694, which contains numerous engravings, by Luiken and his son Caspar (Caspaares), of 17th century trades.
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Des Esseintes on Luyken
- He [ Des Esseintes ] possessed a whole series of studies by this artist in lugubrious fantasy and ferocious cruelty: his Religious Persecutions, a collection of appalling plates displaying all the tortures which religious fanaticism has invented, revealing all the agonising varieties of human suffering - bodies roasted over braziers, heads scalped with swords, trepanned with nails, lacerated with saws, bowels taken out of the belly and wound on to bobbins, finger-nails slowly removed with pincers, eyes put out, eyelids pinned back, limbs dislocated and carefully broken, bones laid bare and scraped for hours with knives. --J. K. Huysmans via À Rebours, page 57
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