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LastDodo number
5149517
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
ANDREAS GERARDUS HYPERIUS.
Year
1602
Print run
Signed
Publisher
Dimensions
13,3 x 12,0
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Copper engraving by Andreas Gerhard Hyperius (1511-1564), also known as Gerard Andrew Hyperius. Published by Hendrik Hondius I (1573-1650) in the series ,, Icones virorum nostra patrumq. memoria illustrium ''. Used as an illustration in: Jacob Verheiden. “Præstantium aliquot theologorum, qui rom. antichristum præcipuè oppugnarunt, effigies. '' The Hague: Hendrick Hondius I and The Hague: B.C. Nieulandt, 1602-1603. Hyperius was a Protestant theologian born in Ieper (Ypres). He studied in Tournai (Tournai) and Paris. He worked in England between 1536 and 1540 and in 1542 he was given a chair in Marburg. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2014.

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