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	Elsheimer, Adam (b Frankfurt am Main, bapt 18 March 1578; bur Rome, 11 Dec 1610). German painter, printmaker and draughtsman, active in Italy. His small paintings on copper established him after his brief life as the most singular and influential German artist to follow Dürer. Their grand conception in terms of monumental figures and poetic landscape and their meticulous, miniature-like execution were admired by Rubens and came to influence many 17th-century artists, including Rembrandt. Most were produced in Rome after 1600: the limits of this oeuvre and its chronology are extremely hard to establish.
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	Elsheimer, Adam Frankfurt am Main, §2: Art life and organization Italy, §III, 5: Baroque and Rococo painting, c 1600–c 1750 Italy, §III, 5(ii)(b): High Baroque painting, c 1620–c 1650: Rome Rome, §III, 5(i): Art life and organization, 1601–1700: Artistic environment Venice, §II, 4(i): Art life and organization, 1600–1797: Painting attributions Battem, Gerrit van Goudt, Hendrik Stalbemt, Adriaen van Vassal de Saint-Hubert, Jean-Antoine-Hubert With, Pieter de collaboration Keller, Georg commentaries Sandrart, Joachim von, §2: Writings groups and movements Tenebrism methods Perspective, §III, 3: Non-linear: 16th–17th centuries patrons and collectors Bourbon del Monte, Francesco Maria Crozat: (1) Pierre Crozat Duarte, Diego Hollar, Wenceslaus, §1: Background and early travels, before 1636 Knight, Richard Payne La Roque, Antoine de Reynolds, Joshua, §IV: Collecting and dealing reproductive prints by others Engraving, §II, 4(iii): Reproductive engraving, c 1600–c 1750 Passe, de: (3) Magdalena de Passe Prints, §II, 1(viii): Subject-matter, before c 1700: Landscape teachers Rottenhammer, Hans, I, §1: Work in Italy, to 1606 Uffenbach, Philipp works Copper, §2(iv): Painting support Germany, §III, 3(i)(a): Baroque painting and graphic arts: Before the Thirty Years War Landscape painting, §II, 5(i): 17th century: Artists working in Italy Saraceni, Carlo, §1: Training and early works, c 1598–c 1610

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