Alart du Hameel (1450-c.1509)
• Was a Netherlandish engraver, printmaker and architect.
• Working in 's-Hertogenbosch.
• He is the only Netherlandish engraver working in the fifteenth century with archival documents and a secure name.
• He made engravings after the designs of Hieronymus Bosch.
• As an architect, he constructed the Lady Chapel in St. John's cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch.
• Financial problems eventually led him to Leuven in 1494/5, where he worked as an architect of the Sint-Pieterskerk.
• In 1499 he decorated the Kamerijk Hof for the entry of Emperor Maximilian I and his son Philip the Handsome.
• As city architect he constructed bridges and towers in Leuven.
• In 1483, 1493 and again in 1500 and 1506 he belonged to the group of architects in charge of the building projects of the Cathedral of Antwerp.
• He died in Antwerp.
