Philip Galle

Galle was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands, where he was a pupil of the humanist and engraver Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. According to the RKD, he married Catharina van Rollant on 9 June 1569. They had five children who later became active as artists: Theodoor, Cornelis, Philips II, Justa (who married the engraver Adriaen Collaert) and Catharina (who married the engraver Karel de Mallery). In Haarlem he engraved several works of the Haarlem painter Maarten van Heemskerck. Even while he worked from 1557 for the Antwerp publisher Hieronymus Cock, he established himself as an independent printer in Haarlem in 1563, where he made prints after Johannes Stradanus and Maerten de Vos. who later died a gruesome death when he was beheaded and quartered in the Hague because of a conspiracy against the state, received his education when Galle still lived in Haarlem, while De Hooghe already worked for himself at the moment Galle moved to Antwerp. Galle's son Cornelis followed him as an engraver. Early works by Cornelis shows a striking similarity to the work of his father. Philip Galle's press and publishing house was a success. His pupils included his children, de Hooghe, Hendrick Goltzius, Jan Baptist Barbé, Pieter Nagel, the sons of his colleague Hans Collaert Adriaen and Jan, and Karel van Mallery. His sons and sons-in-law carried on the business at Antwerp through the seventeenth century. ==Writings==

As a resident of Antwerp, Galle witnessed numerous events of the Eighty Years War, notably the siege and looting of the town in 1576 by the Spaniards, called "The Spanish Fury". Galle wrote a Cort Verhael, a short chronicle of these events, which was published around the end of 1578. This booklet, which included several maps, was dedicated to archduke Matthias of Austria, a relative of the legal king Philip II of Spain, but not recognised by him as a landvoogd or supervisor of the country. A later print was dedicated to Jean de Bourgogne, lord of Froidmont or Fromont. This rather personal book, which was translated in several languages soon after its first publication, shows Galle as a peace-loving person who intended to stay far away from the political and military turmoil of his era. ==Death==

He died in Antwerp in March 1612. ==Gallery==

Pictures from the Theatri Orbis Terrarum Enchiridion 1585 File:1585 Theatri Orbis Plantinus Page0003 Titel.jpg|Titlepage File:Page0030 Germania.JPG|Germania File:1577 85 Zeland Plantinus 47.jpg|Zelandicarum File:1585 Vlaanderen Plantinus 44a.JPG|Flandria + text Engravings attributed to Galle File:Portret Macropedius, Philips Galle.jpg| Macropedius File:Abraham Ortelius Color.jpg| Ortelius File:Mors ultima linea rerum.jpg| Death is the ultimate limit File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Alchemist.JPG| The Alchemist; after Breugel File:1565 Triumph of Death Galle.jpg| Triumph of Death File:Battle of Mons Regonis (Stradanus, Philips Galle).jpg| Battle at Mons Regonis File:Phillipp Galle Zuckermühle.jpg| Sugarmill File:Island20x1024.jpg| Northern Europe 1577 File:Discordia print by Philip Galle, S.I 1737, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg| Discordia. The Seven Sacraments (1576) with Hans Bol File:Title Plate to Series- The Seven Sacraments 1576 print by Hans Bol, S. I 37883, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Titlepage File:Baptism 1576 print by Hans Bol, S.I 37884, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Baptism File:Communium 1576 print by Hans Bol, S.I 37889, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Confirmation File:Eucharism 1576 print by Hans Bol, S.I 37887, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Eucharist File:Last Sacrament 1576 print by Hans Bol, S.I 37886, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Penance File:Confession 1576 print by Hans Bol, S.I 37888, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Anointing of the Sick File:Ordination 1576 print by Hans Bol, S. I 37885, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Holy Orders File:Matrimony 1576 print by Hans Bol, S.I 37890, Prints Department, Royal Library of Belgium.jpg|Matrimony ==Notes==