Adam Elsheimer (1578 – 1610)

• Was a German artist working in Rome.
• His relatively few paintings were small scale, nearly all painted on copper plates, of the type often known as cabinet paintings.
• They include a variety of light effects, and an innovative treatment of landscape.
• Elsheimer was born in Frankfurt am Main, one of ten children and the son of a master-tailor.
• He was apprenticed to the artist Philipp Uffenbach.
• In early 1600, Elsheimer arrived in Rome.
• Adam quickly made friends with contacts of Rottenhammer, notably Giovanni Faber, a Papal doctor, botanist and collector. 
• Another friend of Rottenhammer was the Flemish landscape painter Paul Bril.
• Bril already established in Rome, who was a witness at Elsheimer's marriage. 
• Elsheimer died at only thirty-two.
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