Draft:Haarlem Academy

Founded in Haarlem during the late 16th century, the Haarlem Academy became a beacon of artistic innovation and education that seemed to presage the onset of the Dutch Golden Age of art. It was home to leading artists who, among other greats, included Karel van Mander, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, and Hendrick Goltzius, who did much to foster an atmosphere of creative interchange and collaboration. The academy became a melting pot of new artistic practices and theories, which were to have a great bearing on Dutch art and culture. Such served to influence Northern European art development, combined in the unique mix of practical instruction and theoretical discourse as realized in van Mander's didactic poems and the collaborative works of its founders.