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Linking cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries, ca. 1475 - ca. 1725

Abraham Ortelius

Portrait
Name:Abraham Ortelius
Gender:male
Born:Antwerpen
Died:Antwerpen
Father:Leonard Ortel (? - ?)
Mother:Anna Herwayers (? - ?)

Occupations:

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Attributes

Category Attribute Value Date startDate end
Religion DenominationRoman Catholic
Subject of painting Geografie en cosmografiegeografische kaarten

Relations

Relation Modifier Date startDate end
Artistic
portrayed by Hendrick GoltziusIndividual portrait
Business
is employee of Christoffel Plantin
Friendship
received contribution in album amicorum from Peeter Heyns
received contribution in album amicorum from Catharina Heyns
received contribution in album amicorum from Zacharias Heyns
travelling-companion of Gerard Mercator
travelling-companion of Johannes Vivianus
witnessed baptism of Abraham Borrekens

References

External biographical records

Secondary sources

  1. Briels, Jan, Vlaamse schilders in de noordelijke Nederlanden in het begin van de Gouden Eeuw 1585-1630, Haarlem: Becht/Gottmer; Antwerpen: Mercator (1987)
  2. Donkersloot-De Vrij, Marijke, Repertorium van Nederlandse kaartmakers 1500-1900, Utrecht: s.n. (2003). <URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6149379>
  3. Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
  4. Lampo, Jan, Gelukkige stad: De gouden jaren van Antwerpen (1485-1585), Amsterdam: AUP (2017), 153
  5. Meskens, Ad, 'Liaisons dangereuses: Peter Heyns en Abraham Ortelius', De Gulden Passer 76/77 (1998/99), pp. 95-108. <URL: https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_gul005199801_01/_gul005199801_01_0003.php>
  6. Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 26, Leipzig: Engelmann (1932)
  7. Turner, Jane (ed.) The dictionary of art (34 vols.), London: Macmillan; New York: Grove (1996)