Hieronymus Cock
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Hieronymus (Jérôme) Cock (Kock) (ca. 1510—1570) was a Flemish painter and engraver of the Northern Renaissance, but was perhaps most significant as a publisher and distributor of prints. He was born to a family of painters; his father was Jan Wellens de Cock, his brother Matthys Cock (1505-1552).
He was admitted to the guild of painters of Saint Luke at Antwerp in 1545. From 1546 to 1548, he worked at Rome. When he returned to Anvers in 1548, he founded his own publishing house, Aux quatre vents. Giorgio Ghisi and Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert worked with him there, and Cornelis Cort was a student.
He made engravings based on the works of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch. With the Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, he collaborated on a 1562 Map of America.[1]
From 1557, Philippe Galle worked at his printing house and later succeeded him there.
Vincenzo Scamozzi copied many of the engravings made by Cock for his own volume on Rome.
