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Jan Collaert I

Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists

Jan Collaert I was a Netherlandish engraver, recorded by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as working in Antwerp from about 1530 until his death there in 1581. The museum holds his engraving Nimrod Deciding Where to Build the Tower, dated 1585, which is the first plate of a series on the Tower of Babel bound into the Thesaurus Sacrarum historiarum Veteris et Novi Testamenti, in a first state of two. The atlas records him as the named engraver of that biblical print, one of the sacred images in the divinity atlas that points to this entry for its maker.

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Gender
Male 1
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Practices

Printmaking, Art Forms
Source Jan Collaert the Elder (Wikipedia)
Tapestry, Art Forms
Source Jan Collaert the Elder (Wikipedia)
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Works Attributed

Nimrod Deciding Where to Build the Tower (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 53.601.335(1))

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Nationality

Belgium

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Source Jan Collaert the Elder (Wikipedia)Lead
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Jan Collaert the Elder or (I), Hans Collaert the Elder or Johannes Collaert (Brussels, between 1525 and 1530 – Antwerp, October 1580) was a Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer, glass painter and designer and engraver of swords.

Originated In

Belgium

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject originated.

Source Getty Research Institute: Union List of Artist Names: Jan Collaert IBirth and Death Places
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Born: Antwerp (Antwerpen province, Flanders, Belgium) (inhabited place)
Sources
1. Jan Collaert the Elder (Wikipedia)
  • Biography, career in Brussels and Antwerp
    After a career as a draftsman producing designs for glass makers, tapestry makers and embroiderers in Brussels, he moved sometime before 1563 to Antwerp where he created designs for the local tapestry workshops.
  • Practices: Printmaking, Lead
    was a Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer
  • Practices: Tapestry, Lead
    was a Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer
  • In Group: Northern European Engravers and Etchers, Lead
    Jan Collaert the Elder or (I), Hans Collaert the Elder or Johannes Collaert (Brussels, between 1525 and 1530, Antwerp, October 1580) was a Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer, glass painter and designer and engraver of swords.
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