Hieronymus Cock

Infobox Artist
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name = Hieronymus Cock

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caption = Portrait of Cock engraved by Hieronymus Wierix
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birthdate = ca. 1510 ?
location = Antwerpen?, Belgium
deathdate = 1570
deathplace = Antwerpen, Belgium
nationality = Belgian
field = Painting, printmaking, printing
training = Antwerpen, Rome?
movement = Renaissance
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Hieronymus (Jérôme) Cock (Kock) (c. 1510—1570) was a Flemish painter and etcher of the Northern Renaissance, but was perhaps most significant as a publisher and distributor of prints. He was born to a family of painters; his father was Jan Wellens de Cock, his brother Matthys Cock (1505-1548).Cock issued his first prints in Antwerp in 1548. At his death in 1570 he left behind him the most prominent print publishing establishment in Europe north of the Alps [See:Timothy A. Riggs, Hieronymus Cock. Printmaker and Publisher, PhD, Yale University 1971, published in the series 'Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts', Garland Publishers, New York / London, 1977] . Cock's enterprise played an important role in the spread of the Italian High Renaissance troughout northern Europe as Cock published prints by prominent engravers as Giorgio Ghisi and Cornelis Cort after leading Italian painters as amongst others Raphael, Primaticcio and Andrea del Sarto. Cock also favoured the inventions of his Flemish and Dutch contemporaries such as Frans Floris, Pieter Bruegel and Maarten van Heemskerck. His widow Volcxken Diercx continued the publishing house under the name "Aux quatre vents" (In the [sign] of the four winds) until her death in 1601.

Life and work as an artist

He was admitted to the painters' guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp in 1545.

From 1546 to 1548, he worked at Rome. When he returned to Antwerp in 1548, he founded his own publishing house, "Aux quatre vents" (the "House of the Four Winds"). Giorgio Ghisi and Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert worked with him there, and Cornelis Cort was a student. He made engravings based on the works of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch. With the Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, he collaborated on a 1562 "Map of America". [http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/frontiers/gutierrz.html]

From 1557, Philippe Galle worked at his printing house and later succeeded him there.
Vincenzo Scamozzi copied many of the engravings made by Cock for his own volume on Rome.

References

External links

* [http://www.ulg.ac.be/wittert/fr/flori/opera/cock/cock_notice.html Hieronymus (Jérôme) COCK]
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cock_hieronymous.html Art Cyclopedia: Hieronymous Cock]