Galle, Philip (sold)
Philip Galle (1537 – March 1612) was a Dutch publisher, best known to the map world for his role as Abraham Ortelius' longtime publisher. He also was active in publishing engraved prints of the paintings of old masters, which he also engraved. Galle was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands, where he was a pupil of humanist and engraver Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert. He married Catharina van Rollant in 1569. They had five children who later became active as artists. He worked for a time under Antwerp and publisher and engraver Hieronymus Cock, and began independent work in 1563. He moved to Antwerp about this time, across the street from Abraham Ortelius; he was a friend of printer Christopher Plantin. He took over Cock's publishing business in 1570
managed Cock's press and succeeded Cock in 1570 and was received as a citizen of Antwerp the following year. His publishing house proved successful and his heirs continued the business well into the next century.
Ortelius, himself.
[Untitled Portrait].
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This is Philip Galle's portrait of Abraham Ortelius, first appearing in the 1579 edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Galle's engraving is after a portrait by Flemish painter Adriaen Thomasz Key (1544 - 1589), one of Antwerp's most prolific and successful portrait painters, and a guild-member with Ortelius. Key is known for his precise, almost photorealistic portraits making Galle's engraving the most accurate representation of the pioneering mapmaker available to the collector.
The portrait, in left profile, is presented in an elaborately garlanded strapwork frame. At the top is Ortelius' personal symbol: the Chi-Rho, flanked with Alpha and Omega - a Christogram - and the motto 'Vitae Scopus' (The goal of life). At the base of the portrait is an elegiac couplet composed by Andreas de Pape (1542 - 1581), a poet and musician, and also one of Galle's editors. His Latin couplet translates as: Ortelius gave mortals the world to look at, and Galle gave the world Ortelius to look at. (more details)
The portrait, in left profile, is presented in an elaborately garlanded strapwork frame. At the top is Ortelius' personal symbol: the Chi-Rho, flanked with Alpha and Omega - a Christogram - and the motto 'Vitae Scopus' (The goal of life). At the base of the portrait is an elegiac couplet composed by Andreas de Pape (1542 - 1581), a poet and musician, and also one of Galle's editors. His Latin couplet translates as: Ortelius gave mortals the world to look at, and Galle gave the world Ortelius to look at. (more details)