The painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) spent much of his career in Haarlem, in the Netherlands, and excelled. In 1532, he traveled to Italy, where he collaborated with visionaries such as Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Battista Franco, and Francesco de’ Rossi. Giorgio Vasari praised his battle scenes, declaring they were both well-composed and boldly executed. When van Heemskerck returned home in 1536, he began making drawings inspired by the architecture and art of the Eternal City, to be reproduced by commercial printmakers. In his series “Wonders of the World,” he draws the Colosseum as it was then, a hulking ruin. In this first-ever retrospective on van Heemskerck, which comes 450 years after his death, works that span his career will be on view across three museums. —Elena Clavarino