Roemer Visscher

Visscher was born in and lived in Amsterdam and was an important and central figure of the cultural scene there and member of the rederijkerskamer De Eglantier with as slogan "In liefde bloeiende" ("Blossoming in love").

Vondel called Visschers house "het saligh Roemers huys" ("delightful house of Roemer"), because artists of all kinds visited his house on the Gelderse Kade in Amsterdam, varying from painters to poets.

[1] The humanistic and moralistic content of his works belongs to the period of the Renaissance, although the form was more conservative and characteristic to the rederijkers.

The emblemata is a genre in which pictures are accompanied by one or two rhyming sentences.

One emblema is called "Elck wat wils" which is still a common expression in Dutch, meaning "To each his own".