Portret van Johannes Schöner

About this artwork

Mogelijk prent uit: Boissard, Jean-Jacques; Bry, Theodoor de; e.a. Bibliotheca sive thesaurus virtutis et gloriae in quo continentur illustrium eruditione et doctrina virorum effigies et vitae (...). Frankfurt: Guilielmi Fitzeri, 1628.

Art Historical Context

This engraving by Robert Boissard captures Johannes Schöner, the influential German astronomer, geographer, and instrument maker whose work helped shape 16th-century understandings of the cosmos. Created between 1597 and 1599, the portrait was likely intended for a later compilation of distinguished scholars, appearing in the 1628 Frankfurt publication *Bibliotheca sive thesaurus virtutis et gloriae*. Though Schöner had died decades earlier, such posthumous images kept his contributions visible to new generations of readers and collectors. Measuring just 138 by 107 millimeters, the small scal...

About the Artist

Robert Boissard · 1586–1691

Robert Boissard (c. 1570–after 1630) was a French engraver and draughtsman whose work exemplifies the transition from late Renaissance to early Baroque printmaking in France. Born around 1570 in Valence, Boissard belonged to an artistic family and was a relative of the distinguished scholar and artist Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528–1602), whose monumental biographical and archaeological publications ...