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Born c.1480 • Bourges • France
Died c.1533 • Paris • France
Movement / Style Renaissance art • Renaissance
Subjects Of Study orthography

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Two-page spread from Geoffroy Tory's Book of Hours (1531).
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Simon de Colines
French printer
Nicolas Jenson
French printer
William Morris
British artist and author
Times New Roman
Stanley Morison
English typographer
Bodoni, engraving
Giambattista Bodoni
Italian printer
Walker, Emery: Brooks's in the Olden Time
Sir Emery Walker
English printer
John Baskerville
English printer
Sir Francis Meynell
English designer
Daniel Berkeley Updike
American printer and publisher
S.H. de Roos
Dutch typographer
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
British book designer
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Henri II Estienne
French scholar and printer
Title page to the Biblia, showing olive-tree motif adopted as Estienne family emblem, 1532
Robert I Estienne
French scholar and printer
Christophe Plantin
French printer
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
French-Flemish composer
Jean Mone
French sculptor