The Rosy Renaissance of Roelof de Rover

There are very few families that can point to a Renaissance painting, and not only claim their kindred are in this painting, but, rendered this work, and others. Add to this the Roesmont contact with Erasmus, a Renaissance philosopher, as well as members of the Swan Brethren who commisioned the The Renaissance artist, Hieronymus Bosch, then we have what the fictional book the Davinci Code atached itself to. Now add our kinship to the Rover-Montfort family, who could have claimed the throne of Scotland, then we have a real Grail Story here.

Alas add the artist Anthonie van Montfoort, and you have what is called the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance.

The Stone of Destiny is at work here. With the current show of the Benton family artists in Carmel, my dream of founding an Art Guild modeled on the Pre-Raphaelites, has come true: for my DNA material of long ago…