roelant 's brothers took his sons home to the countryside , and the widow roelant and judith de wilde now together maintained the house , caring for the old man with great gentleness , but living a life of gaiety and many diversions as the rooms were thrown open all day and evening to the writers and poets and scholars and painters who chose to come there , and the students of judith , who admired her as much as they admired any male painter , for she was just as fine , and had her membership in the guild of st luke the same as a man .