• Thumbnail for Jan Moretus
    Jan Moretus, also John Moerentorf or Joannes Moretus (2 May 1543 – 22 September 1610), was a Flemish printer who was an apprentice for Christophe Plantin...
    6 KB (662 words) - 11:39, 4 March 2024
  • Moretus (Moerentorf) is a Flemish family name and may refer to: Jan Moretus Theodorus Moretus Balthasar I Moretus Moretus (crater) - a crater in the southern...
    789 bytes (120 words) - 06:08, 20 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Christophe Plantin
    business. Balthasar I Moretus (1574–1641) Jan II Moretus (1576–1618) married Maria De Sweert; they had 6 children Balthasar II Moretus (1615–1674) married...
    17 KB (2,115 words) - 21:54, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Balthasar I Moretus
    Antwerp in 1555. He was the son of Martina Plantin and Jan Moretus. Moretus was the son of Jan Moretus and Martina Plantin, daughter of Christophe Plantin...
    7 KB (864 words) - 02:24, 15 May 2023
  • Theodorus Moretus, also known as Theodor or Theodore Moretus (1602–1667) was a Flemish Jesuit priest who was also a mathematician, geometer, theologian...
    10 KB (1,323 words) - 15:08, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Balthasar van Meurs
    the Moretus family, which operated the Plantin Press in Antwerp. He was principally a painter of portraits and his principal patrons were the Moretus family...
    6 KB (788 words) - 04:57, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pieter van der Borcht the Elder
    observatarum historia, 1576 (Moretus). Evangeliorum Domincalium Summaria, 1580. Imagines et Figurae Bibliorum, 1581 (Moretus). Bedieninghe der Anatomien...
    13 KB (1,649 words) - 17:28, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Martina Plantin
    the head of the Plantin-Moretus printing business from 1610 to 1614, with daily operations managed by her sons Balthasar and Jan. She was considered a "formidable...
    13 KB (1,433 words) - 06:53, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Plantin Press
    (2014). Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press (2 Vols.): A Bibliography of the Works published and printed by Jan Moretus I in Antwerp...
    6 KB (695 words) - 09:10, 24 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Jan Collaert II
    produced book illustrations for Antwerp publishing house Plantin Moretus. New Hollstein 1993 Jan Collaert (II) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History...
    4 KB (478 words) - 17:21, 27 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Joannes Bochius
    (Antwerp, Jan Moretus, 1590). Descriptio publicae gratulationis, spectaculorum et ludorum, in adventu Sereniss. Principis Ernesti (Antwerp, Jan Moretus, 1595)...
    5 KB (456 words) - 20:48, 25 June 2024
  • (2014). Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press (2 Vols.): A Bibliography of the Works published and printed by Jan Moretus I in Antwerp...
    9 KB (656 words) - 00:20, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for François d'Aguilon
    useful for philosophers and mathematicians. It was published by Balthasar I Moretus in Antwerp in 1613 and illustrated by the famous painter Peter Paul Rubens...
    12 KB (1,453 words) - 06:20, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Garamond
    Plantin-Moretus Museum, which preserves original Garamond punches and matrices. Garamond's Augustine Romaine punches at the Plantin-Moretus Museum Augustine...
    135 KB (14,451 words) - 07:56, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jan Frans van Geel
    architectural and sculptural projects made by van Geel are kept in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. His best known work is the pulpit in oak in the St....
    11 KB (1,364 words) - 08:21, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)
    Joanne Riviera. Johnnes Moretus, marr. Martina Plantyn. Balthasar Moretus, marr. Anne Goos. Arnold de Pret, marr. Maria Moretus. Choir stalls, Frans-Andries...
    21 KB (2,024 words) - 18:45, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joannes Woverius
    Imhof, Dirk. Jan Moretus and the continuation of the Plantin Press : a bibliography of the works published and printed by Jan Moretus I in Antwerp (1589-1610)...
    2 KB (192 words) - 16:00, 20 November 2023
  • pattern letters survive at the Plantin-Moretus Museum: van den Keere's Grande Musique punches in the Plantin-Moretus Museum Grande Musique punches, detail...
    27 KB (2,731 words) - 14:20, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Philip Fruytiers
    Jean Bolland and Godfrey Henschen was printed by Balthasar I Moretus at the Plantin Moretus press in Antwerp in 1640. The design which was engraved by...
    9 KB (1,014 words) - 22:51, 4 July 2024
  • Galle, daughter of Theodore Galle and Catherine Moerentorf (daughter of Jan Moretus and granddaughter of Christopher Plantin). Later, on 29 April 1635, he...
    8 KB (800 words) - 09:48, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adriaen Collaert
    pupils and from 1589 he worked for Plantijn Moretus. His pupils were Jan Boel, Quirin Boel (I), Adriaan Boon, Jan Collaert (II), and Abraham van Merlen. He...
    5 KB (561 words) - 08:09, 22 March 2024
  • books printed in the Netherlands, and with 5 presses was second only to Moretus in Antwerp. In 1876, the Verdussenstraat (Verdussen Street) was named after...
    15 KB (1,984 words) - 06:53, 7 November 2023
  • Sint-Franciscusinstituut Deurne Stedelijk Lyceum Deurne Ekeren BSGO Driehoek KA Ekeren Moretus Ekeren--> fusion of O.-L.-V. van Lourdesinstituut and Sint-Lambertusinstituut...
    7 KB (594 words) - 14:05, 21 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for James Ensor
    Brussels Alimentation Doctrinaire (1889) etching, 17.8 × 24.8 cm, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp King Pest (1895) etching, 10 × 12 cm, Royal Library of...
    32 KB (3,387 words) - 21:34, 21 August 2024
  • and art patron (died 1674) Jan Brueghel the Younger, painter (1601–1678) François Ykens, painter (1601–1693) Theodorus Moretus, mathematician, theologian...
    22 KB (2,592 words) - 13:25, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Astrolabe
    lambanein "to take". In the medieval Islamic world the Arabic word al-Asturlāb (i.e., astrolabe) was given various etymologies. In Arabic texts, the word is...
    47 KB (5,224 words) - 09:31, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Princeton University Press
    which was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press...
    11 KB (962 words) - 11:13, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Italic type
    punchcutter whose matrix is numbered MA174 in an inventory of Plantin Moretus Museum…is not completely italic but has traces of blackletter, which must...
    46 KB (4,849 words) - 00:55, 15 September 2024
  • Press during the years 1648 to 1658 when the Press was run by Balthasar II Moretus. He may at the time have been living in Antwerp as the Flemish missionary...
    16 KB (1,906 words) - 18:02, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frans Floris
    Frans Floris (redirect from Frans I Floris)
    Pieter van der Heyden, Frans Huys, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert and Jan Sadeler I also made engravings after the works of Frans Floris. Floris also made...
    20 KB (2,763 words) - 10:13, 24 March 2024