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Hieronymus Cock, or Hieronymus Wellens de Cock (1518 – 3 October 1570) was a Flemish painter and etcher as well as a publisher and distributor of prints.〔(Hieronymus Cock ) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History 〕 Cock was the most important print publisher of his time in northern Europe and played a key role in the transformation of printmaking from an activity of individual artists and craftsmen into an industry based on division of labour.〔(Hans Devisscher and Timothy Riggs. "Hieronymus Cock. )" Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 15 Jun. 2014〕 ==Life== He was born into an artistic family. His father Jan Wellens de Cock and his brother Matthys Cock were both painters and draftsmen.〔 He was admitted to the painters' guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp in 1545. He resided in Rome from 1546 to 1548. When he returned to Antwerp in 1548, he founded his own publishing house, ''Aux quatre vents'' or ''In de Vier Winden'' (the "House of the Four Winds"). He issued his first prints there in 1548. Cock's enterprise played an important role in the spread of the Italian High Renaissance throughout northern Europe as Cock published prints made by prominent engravers such as Giorgio Ghisi, Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and Cornelis Cort after the work of leading Italian painters like Raphael, Primaticcio, Bronzino, Giulio Romano and Andrea del Sarto. The Italian historian of architecture Vincenzo Scamozzi copied many of the engravings published by Cock in 1551 for his volume on Rome entitled 'Discorsi sopra L'antichita di Roma' (Venice: Ziletti, 1583).〔(Praecipua aliquot Romanae Antiquitatis Ruinarum Monimenta ) at the British Musueum〕 The majority of Cock's prints were made after paintings by artists from the Low Countries such as Frans Floris, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Lambert Lombard, Maarten van Heemskerck and Hieronymus Bosch as well as architectural and ornament designs by Cornelis Floris and Hans Vredeman de Vries.〔 In 1559 and 1561 he published two series of landscape prints by an anonymous Flemish draughtsman now referred to as the Master of the Small Landscapes. The series of landscapes were drawn from nature in the vicinity of Antwerp and had an important influence on the development of Flemish and Dutch realist landscape art.〔Larry Silver, Peasant Scenes and Landscapes. The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006〕 Cock collaborated with the Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez on a 1562 ''Map of America''.〔(Diego Gutiérrez ) at the Library of Congress' website〕 Hieronymus Cock collaborated with Antwerp architect and designer Cornelis Floris de Vriendt in the publishing of Cornelis Floris' designs for monuments and ornaments: the ‘’Veelderley niewe inuentien van antycksche sepultueren’’ (‘The many new designs of antique sculptures') was published in 1557 and the ‘’Veelderley veranderinghe van grotissen’’ (‘Many varieties of grotesques’) in 1556. The publication of these books contributed to the spread of the so-called Floris style throughout the Netherlands.〔(Carl Van de Velde. "Cornelis Floris II." ) Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 25 June. 2014〕 The Dutch publisher Philip Galle worked at Cock's printing house from 1557 and succeeded him in 1570. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hieronymus Cock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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