Jerome Cock

Jerome (Hieronymus) Cock (Kock) (Ca 1510 - 1570) is a painter and Flemish engraver of the Renaissance, but it is especially like printer and merchant of Estampe S that he saw his name passing to the posterity.

Life

It was born in a family from painter S. His father, Jan Wellens de Cock (ca.1480-1527), is one of the first artists of the north of Europe to be been interested in the landscape and Carel van Mander speaks in praise of the landscapes carried out by his/her brother, Matthys Cock (1505 - 1552).

It is allowed in the guild of Luc Saint to Antwerp in 1545. From 1546 to 1548, it is active with Rome. Of return to Antwerp in 1548, it founds its own publisher, To the four winds . Giorgio Ghisi, Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert, works for him and Cornelius Cort is its pupil.

He publishes engravings on drawings of Pieter Bruegel Old the or of Hieronymus Bosch. With the assistance of the Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, it publishes a chart of America in 1562.

From 1557, Philippe Galle works in his publisher and will end up taking its succession.

Vincenzo Scamozzi recopied number of engravings of Cock for its work on Rome.

One finds his effigy in the effigies of the famous painters of the Netherlands of Dominique Lampson.

See too

External bonds

Hieronymus (Jerome) COCK
Art Cyclopedia: Hieronymous Cock

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