Galle Philips

Philips Galle was a Southern Netherlandish artist, born in Haarlem/Netherlands in 1537 and died in Antwerp in 1612. He was an engraver, draftsman and printmaker. He was a pupil of Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert and contemporary of the engraver Joannes Wiericx (1549-1615). From 1557 his prints were published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp. From 1563 he published his own prints. Galle made engravings after examples by Pieter Bruegel, Maarten van Heemskerck, Frans Floris and Jan van der Straet, among others. His Virorum doctorum de disciplinis bene merentium effigies XLIIII was published in 1572, a work with many portraits of famous contemporaries, including Thomas More, Christopher Plantin, Gemma Frisius, Andreas Vesalius, Georgius Macropedius and Abraham Ortelius. Shortly after the publication of Ortelius' first atlas in 1570, Philip Galle had the idea of ​​compiling a cheap pocket edition, the Epitome. He engraved the cards himself, had texts made by Hugo Favolius and Pieter & Zacharias Heyns and chose Christoffel Plantin as printer. From 1585 it produced prints with a more dogmatic Catholic iconography. (BT)