Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies  

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Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies (Portraits of some Celebrated Artists of the Low Countries) (1572) is a work of engravings and poetry published by Dominicus Lampsonius. It featured a set of twenty-three engraved portraits of artists from the Low Countries, a set of prints by Hieronymus Cock. They were left behind after his death in 1570.

The list of artists in the Hieronymus Cock version were (in order): Hubert van Eyck, Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Rogier van der Weyden, Dirk Bouts, Bernard van Orley, Jan Mabuse, Joachim Patinir, Quentin Matsys, Lucas van Leyden, Jan van Amstel, Joos van Cleve, Matthys Cock, Herri met de Bles, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Pieter van Aelst, Jan van Scorel, Lambert Lombard, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Willem Key, Lucas Gassel, Frans Floris, and ending with Hieronymus Cock himself. The book includes a poem by Lampsonius dedicated to the memory of Hieronymus Cock and applauding the work of his widow. In 1610 22 of these prints served as models for Hendrik Hondius I who published a book of the same name with 69 engraved portraits, though he dropped the portrait of Cock himself. This last portrait (often numbered 23) may however have been dropped because the inscription under it claims the likeness was made after death, rather than being drawn as was more customary, "ad vivum" or after the living model.




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