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Christoffel Plantin
Painting ID:: 64613
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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Christoffel Plantin
Oil on canvas Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp Christoffel (Christophe) Plantin (1520-1589), French printer, founder of an important printing house and publisher of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible. Plantin learned bookbinding and bookselling at Caen, Normandy, and settled in 1549 as a bookbinder in Antwerp. A bad arm wound seems to have led him (about 1555) to turn to typography. His many publications were distinguished by their excellent typography, and he was original in using copper, instead of wood, engravings for book illustrations. His greatest venture, the Biblia regia, which would fix the original text of Old and New Testaments, was supported by Philip II of Spain in spite of clerical opposition and appeared in eight volumes during 1569-72. When Antwerp was plundered by the Spaniards in 1576 and Plantin had to pay a ransom, he established a branch office in Paris and then, in 1583, settled in Leiden as the typographer of the new university of the states of Holland, leaving his much-reduced business in Antwerp in the hands of his sons-in-law, John Moerentorf (Moretus) and Francis van Ravelinghen (Raphelengius). But in 1585 Plantin returned to Antwerp and Raphelengius took over the business in Leiden. After Plantin's death, the Antwerp business was carried on by Moretus, but it declined during the second half of the 17th century. All was religiously preserved, however, and in 1876 the city of Antwerp acquired the buildings and their contents and created the Plantin-Moretus Museum. Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Christoffel Plantin, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , portrait
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Virgin and Child
Painting ID:: 64698
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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Virgin and Child
1620-24 Oil on wood, 65 x 48 cm Mus?es Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Virgin and Child, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
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Adoration of the Magi
Painting ID:: 64699
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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Adoration of the Magi
1626-29 Oil on canvas, 283 x 219 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Adoration of the Magi, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
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Virgin and Child
Painting ID:: 64700
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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Virgin and Child
62 x 50 cm St.-Niklaaskerk, Brussels Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Virgin and Child, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
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Adoration of the Magi
Painting ID:: 64701
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RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel
Adoration of the Magi
1618-19 Oil on canvas, 245 x 325 cm Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Artist:RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel Title: Adoration of the Magi, 1601-1650, Flemish , painting , religious
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