Hieronymus Cock

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Wood engraving by Cock (Seven Deadly Sins )

Hieronymus Jérôme Cock (around 1510 , † 1570 ) was a Dutch publisher .

Cock, who is considered one of the most important publishers of engravings in the 16th century , was also active as a painter and engraver .

Pieter Bruegel the Elder completed his apprenticeship with Cock, who distributed Bruegel's drawings by publishing them as engraving reproductions.

He had a major influence on art through the sheets of ruined landscapes of ancient Roman buildings produced in 1551, the motifs of which the painters increasingly began to integrate into their pictures, which led to a pronounced romanticism of ruins among later painters (26 sheets of Roman ruins).

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