Pieter de Jode I. (1570–1634)

• Was a Flemish printmaker, draughtsman, publisher and painter.
• He was active as a reproductive artist who created many prints after the works of leading painters. 
• Pieter de Jode was born in Antwerp as the son of the prominent Dutch-born map maker Gerard de Jode.

• He received his initial training in the techniques of drawing and engraving from his father.

• He later studied with Hendrik Goltzius in Haarlem.

• In the early 1590s Pieter de Jode the Elder was active in Amsterdam.

• He then travelled to Italy. 

• In Rome in the 1590s he made engravings after works by Titian, Giulio Romano and Jacopo Bassano, Annibale Carracci, Francesco Vanni.

• His engravings of Italian master paintings became a source for Karel van Mander.

• Pieter de Jode the Elder also spent time in Venice as is documented on a suite of engravings after designs by Maerten de Vos which he made in Venice and was published by Crispijn de Passe.

• He travelled back home.

• In 1599 he became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp.

• In 1631 he travelled to Paris.

• Pieter de Jode the Elder was the teacher of his son Pieter de Jode II, Pieter de Bailliu, Johan Caspar Dooms, Pieter Perret and Nicolaes Ryckmans.

• Upon his return to Antwerp he produced engravings after designs of Sebastiaen Vrancx, Otto van Veen, Anthony van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens.

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