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Last Name Vérard

Given Name Anthoine

alt. Names A. V. ; Antoine Verard ;

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Year born 1450 c.

Year died 1513r

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Country of Activity France

Worked for Jean Cuba: Ortus sanitatis / Le Jardin de Santé (French ed. c. 1501) ;

Patronage

Collaborators many printers, e.g. Etienne Jehannot ;

Techniques woodcuts in more than 100 books; more expensive versions on vellum w. hand-made illuminations for wealthy clients; hand-colouring; oil painting

Sample(s) www.1st-art-gallery.com/Antoine-Verard/Scene-From-A-Battle-Defending-Constantinople,-From-Ogier-Le-Danois,-1499.html ; web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook

Archival sources see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_V%C3%A9rard & for listings of his books

Published sources Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens, 1965; Montmollin: L'Illustration anatomique de la Renaissance au Siècle des Lumières, Neuchatel 1998:14-19; Mary Beth Winn: A.V.-Parisian Publisher, 1485-1512. Genève 1997;

other mostly known as a printer & publisher; florit 1485-1512, based at the heart of the bookselling and printing quarter of Paris, in a shop under the sign of St John the Evangelist, on the Pont Notre-Dame, rue St.Jacques in Paris

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