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Pieter Perret
Pieter Perret ( es, Pedro Perret 1555–1625) was a Flemish people, Flemish engraver who worked in Madrid in the service of Philip II of Spain. He married Isabel de Faria, who was born in Portugal, with whom he had a son, also named Peter. His son, also an engraver, Hispanicization, Hispanicized his name and went by "Pedro Perete". Background Born in Antwerp around 1555, he was a pupil of Maerten de Vos and Gerard de Jode. Prior to 1578 he studied engraving in Rome with Cornelis Cort. After that, he returned to Antwerp, eventually moving to Bavaria, where he was appointed engraver to William IV, Duke of Bavaria and the Elector of Cologne. During this time, he may also have worked in Paris for publisher Nicolas Le Bon. In 1584 Juan de Herrera commissioned Perret to print images of the plants and topographical views of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo Del Escorial, Monastery of San Lorenzo Del Escorial. Herrera was to provide the copper plates already drawn by his hand, and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
