Schardt, Johan Gregor Van Der

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Johan (or Jan) Gregor van der Schardt was a sculptor from the Northern Renaissance. He toured Italy in the 1560s and worked in Bologna. From 1569 to 1576, he was in the service of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna, and subsequently took commissions in Nuremberg. He specialized in painted terracotta busts, including a self-portrait of about 1573. From c. 1576 to c. 1580, he worked on the construction of the Uraniborg observatory of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe on the island of Hven. After 1576, he moved to the royal court of Denmark, where he is presumed to have worked during the 1580s and died in the early 1590s, perhaps at Uraniborg on 30 November 1591. Unusually for a non-Italian artist, his work was praised by Giorgio Vasari.