JODE, Pieter de, I

Flemish draftsman, engraver, and publisher, part of a family of printmakers and publishers, active in the 16th-17th centuries.

He learned drawing and engravingGLOSSARYA print made from a metal plate that has had a design cut into it with a sharp point. Ink is smeared over the plate and then wiped off, the ink remaining in the etched lines being transferred when the plate is pressed very firmly onto a sheet of paper. first from his father, the map maker Gerard de Jode (c. 1509-1591), and later from Hendrik Goltzius. His engravings of Italian master paintings became a source for Karel van Mander. He travelled to Rome in 1590 where he made his engravings of Titian, Giulio Romano and Jacopo Bassano. In Rome he might have met his compatriot Jan Brueghel the Elder with whom he later collaborated.

He travelled back home and in 1599 he joined the GuildGLOSSARYAn association of the masters of a particular craft, trade or profession (painters, goldsmiths, surgeons, and so on) set up to protect its members' rights and interests. Such guilds existed in virtually every European city in the 16th century. The guild also monitored standards of work, acted as a court for those who brought their trade into disrepute, and provided assistance to members in need. of Saint Luke in Antwerp. He made engravings after Bartholomaus Spranger, Sebastiaen Vrancx, Otto van Veen, Anthony van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens. In 1631 he travelled to Paris.

He was the teacher of his son Pieter de Jode II and Nicolaes Rijckmans (born c. 1595).