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Cornelis Galle or Cornelius Galle is the name of three engravers, father, son and grandson: *Cornelis Galle the Elder or Cornelis Galle I, 1576–1650 *Cornelis Galle the Younger Cornelis Galle the Younger, Cornelius Galle or Cornelis Galle (I) (bapt. 23 February 1615, Antwerp – 18 October 1678, Antwerp) was a Flemish printmaker. He worked mainly on publications for the Plantin Press in Antwerp for which he engraved de ... or Cornelis Galle II, 1615–1678 * Cornelis Galle III, born 1642 {{hndis, Galle, Cornelis ...
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Cornelis Galle The Elder
Cornelis Galle the Elder (1576 – 29 March 1650), a younger son of Philip Galle, was born at Antwerp in 1576, and was taught engraving by his father. He followed the example of his brother Theodoor in visiting Rome, where he resided for several years and acquired a correctness of design and a freedom of execution in which he greatly surpassed both his father and his brother. After engraving several plates at Rome, he returned to Antwerp, where he carried on the business of a printseller and engraved many plates after the works of his countrymen and his own designs. He became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1610. One of his pupils was Giovanni Florimi of Siena. Prior to his visit to Italy, he engraved some plates in the dry, stiff style of his father, of which the best known are: *A part of the plates of the ''Life of Christ''; after Marten de Vos *A set of plates of the ''Life of the Virgin Mary''; after Stradan *A set of plates of the ''Life of St. John the Bapt ...
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Cornelis Galle The Younger
Cornelis Galle the Younger, Cornelius Galle or Cornelis Galle (I) (bapt. 23 February 1615, Antwerp – 18 October 1678, Antwerp) was a Flemish printmaker. He worked mainly on publications for the Plantin Press in Antwerp for which he engraved devotional prints and book illustrations.Cornelis Galle (II)
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life

Cornelis was born in Antwerp as the son of Anne van der Motte and Cornelis Galle the Elder, an engraver in Antwerp who had worked in Rubens' workshop and the Plantin Press. His grandfather Philip Galle was a Dutch printmaker and publisher who had moved to work in Antwerp in the second half of the 16th century.
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