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- Gerard de Jode
- Also known as
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Gerard de Jode
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primary name: Jode, Gerard de
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other name: Jode, Geeraert de
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other name: Jode, Geerart de
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other name: Jode, Gerardo de
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other name: Jode, Gheerde de
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other name: Jode, Gheraerde de
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other name: Jode, Girard de
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other name: de Jode, Gerard
- Details
- individual; publisher/printer; printmaker; Flemish; Male
- Life dates
- 1516/17-1591
- Biography
- Engraver, mapmaker and publisher. Born in Nijmegen, active in Antwerp from 1547 at latest. Published numerous maps, many of which were engraved by the brothers Johannes and Lucas Doetecum, who had also worked for Cock. He received a printing privilege in 1551. De Jode published many engravings by Johannes Wierix, Harmen Muller, Adriaen Collaert, Johannes Sadeler and after Flemish designers such as Maarten de Vos and Ambrosius Francken. His greatest project was a set of Bible illustrations, finally published under the title 'Thesaurus Veteris et Novi Testamenti' in 1585; the plates were constantly updated. Died in Antwerp, 1591. After his death his widow continued with the business helped by Cornelis (her publications are catalogued in the BM with her husband). Father of Pieter I and Cornelis (qq.v.). On their deaths passed to Pieter de Jode I.
- Bibliography
- New Hollstein, de Jode family (by Marjolein Leesberg, 4 vols 2018)
Hans Mielke, 'Der Thesaurus Veteris et Novi Testamenti des GdJ', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 1975, pp.29-83 (nb the BM copy of Thesaurus is at 159 b.2)