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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.
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Title

 Portrait of Christopher Plantin


Creator

 Rubens, Peter Paul (schilder)


Year

 1613-1616


Type

 schilderij, painting


Related term

 boekdrukkers, uitgevers


Period

 16e eeuw


Classification

 D: Geschiedenis van de boekdrukkunst


Content

 Christopher Plantin (Saint-Avertin nears Tours, c. 1520 - Antwerp, 1 July 1589) was the most important printer-publisher during the second half of the 16th century. In 1576 he moved his internationally renowned printing shop "De Gulden Passer" ("The Golden Compass") to the Vrijdagmarkt in Antwerp. Plantijn and his descendants and successors (de Moretuses) would continue the Officina Plantiniana for three hundred years. This portrait of Plantin at the age of sixty-four was made under commission of Balthasar I Moretus between 1613 and 1616 by Peter Paul Rubens, after the copy of a 1584 painting by an unknown 16th-century master.


Original

 Antwerpen Museum Plantin-Moretus


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek