Pinacotheca Philosophica

Philosophy and Philosophers in Art

 

Bibliotheca Chalcographica (1652-1669)

Bibliotheca Chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagines [The Library of Copper Engravings, Being Portraits of Men Renowned for Virtues and Learning] is a nine-volume collection of engraved portraits of, mainly, Renaissance scholars (jurists, physicians, philosophers, theologians, etc.), published in Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Mein between 1652 and 1669. The project was initiated by Jean Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) who, assisted by engraver Theodor de Bry (1528-1598), published two volumes of Icones virorum illustrium doctrina et eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae cum eorum vitis [Images of Men of Outstanding Knowledge and Deep Learning in Lively and Vivid Pictures] (1597-1598). These were followed with Parts 3 and 4 published by de Bry’s sons Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) and Johann Israel de Bry (1570-1611) collaborating with Johann Adam Lonicer in 1598-1599. Subsequent volumes were the work of Sebastian Furck (Part 6, 1628), Johann Theodor de Bry’s son-in-law Klemens Ammon (Parts 7 and 8, 1650-1652) and Mathias van Somer (Part 9, 1664). Parts 1-7 were published again in 1669.

·         Agrippa von Nettesheim (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Albertus Magnus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Albertus Magnus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Ulisse Aldrovandi (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Johann Heinrich Alsted (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1652)

·         Jacobus Arminius (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         St. Augustine with the Parable of the Holy Trinity (Title Page of Part 7) (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

o        St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)

o        The Parable of the Holy Trinity

·         Bessarion (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Leonardo Bruni (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Guillaume Bud? (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Jean Calvin (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Tommaso Campanella (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1664)

·         Johann Combach (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Nicolaus Copernicus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Cesare Cremonini (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1652)

·         Dante Alighieri (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Ren? Descartes (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1664)

·         Desiderius Erasmus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Marsilio Ficino (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Girolamo Fracastoro (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Rudolph Goclenius (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Hugo Grotius (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Jan Hus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Ulrich von Hutten (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Jacques Lef?vre d’Etaples (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1664)

·         Ramon Llull (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1664)

·         Martin Luther (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Niccol? Machiavelli (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Philipp Melanchthon (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Thomas More (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Paracelsus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Francesco Petrarca (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Platina (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Politian (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Petrus Ramus (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Jacopo Sadoleto (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Girolamo Savonarola (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Theodorus Gaza (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Lorenzo Valla (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Juan Luis Vives (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         John Wycliffe (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Guilielmus Xylander (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)

·         Jacopo Zabarella (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1652)

·         Huldrych Zwingli (Bibliotheca chalcographica, 1669)