Theodoor Galle
Dirck or Theodoor Galle (16 July 1571 – 18 December 1633) was a Flemish Baroque engraver.
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Theodoor Galle
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- Name
- Theodoor Galle
- Birth Name
- Dirck
- Born
- 16 July 1571
- Birthplace
- Antwerp
- Died
- 8 December 1633
- Movement
- Baroque
- Known for
- Engraving
- Nationality
- Southern Netherlands.
- Occupation
- printmaker, publisher, printer and engraver.
- Movements
- Baroque.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Dirck or Theodoor Galle (16 July 1571 – 18 December 1633) was a Flemish Baroque engraver.
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The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is engraving process. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome and Antwerp. Work by Theodoor Galle is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria and Nationalmuseum.
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• Name — Theodoor Galle • Birth Name — Dirck • Born — 16 July 1571 • Birthplace — Antwerp • Died — 8 December 1633 • Place of death — Antwerp • Movement — Baroque • Children — Jan • Known for — Engraving
Biography
Biography
Theodoor (Dirck) Galle learned the art of engraving from his father, Philip Galle. Dirck later married Catharina Moerentorff (Moretus), daughter of the prominent printer Jan Moretus and Maertine Plantijn. Maertine was the daughter of the founder of the Plantin Moretus printing house in Antwerp Christophe Plantin. Galle was one of the engravers linked to the Plantin Moretus press. He became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1595, and became deacon in 1609. He was the teacher of his son Jan Galle, and the engravers Adriaen Millaert, and Gilles van Schoor. Joannes Galle later became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1627, and became deacon in 1638.
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- 1.Cita web http://www.wga.hu/bio/g/galle/theodor/biograph.html The Web Gallery of Art
- 2.Cita web https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/30046 Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
- 3.Cita web http://www.wga.hu/html/g/galle/theodor/opportun.html Occasio arrepta, neglecta - The Web Gallery of Art
- 4.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Death_with_the_Last_Judgement.jpg La Morte - Giudizio Universale - Commons
- 5.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:File-Hieronymo_Boschio_pictori_(full).jpg Ritratto di Hieronymus Bosch - Commons
- 6.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompeo_Colonna.jpg Ritratto del cardinale Pompeo Colonna - Commons
- 7.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Four_Ages_of_Man_1.jpg Le quattro età dell'uomo - Commons
- 8.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Four_Ages_of_Man_2.jpg Le quattro età dell'uomo - Commons
- 9.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triumphwagen_der_Welt.jpg Il carro trionfale del mondo - Commons
- 10.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vredeman_de_Vries_Variae_architecturae.jpg Copertina del libro Variae architecturae formae - Commons
- 11.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vredeman_de_Vries_Hortorum.jpg Copertina del libro Hortorum viridariorumque elegantes et multiplicis formae, ad architectonicae artis normam affabre delineatae - Commons
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