Alardo de Popma

[[File:Psalmodia eucharistica.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Engraving by [[Melchor Prieto]] and Alardo Popma, 1622]]{{No footnotes|date=March 2026}} '''Alardo de Popma''' (before 1617–1641) was a [[Flanders|Flemish]] engraver, who worked in [[Madrid]] in the early seventeenth century, according to the earliest references to his works. His copperplate [[engraving]]s include [[title-page]]s, [[Book frontispiece|frontispiece]]s and [[portrait]]s, which are characterized by an exceptionally clean and confident line.

His is known to have lived in [[Seville]] for a time, perhaps in order to undertake a commission there.

==Works== In 1616 he produced the engravings for the ''Cronicón de la excelentísima casa de los Ponce de León'', published in 1620. He executed the title-page for the ''Comentario sobre las palabras de Nuestra Señora, que se hallan en el Evangelio'' by Fr. [[Pedro de Abreu]] in 1617. In 1621 he worked with [[Jan de Courbes]] to produce a work commissioned by the [[Order of Merced]] that included fifteen copper plates. In 1624, he engraved the title-page of [[Pedro Fernández de Navarrete]]'s ''Conservación de las Monarquías y Discursos políticos'' (Madrid, 1626) and later the title-page for the ''Historia de las Ordenes Militares de [[Order of Santiago|Santiago]], [[Order of Calatrava|Calatrava]] y [[Order of Alcantara|Alcantara]]'' (Madrid, 1629), by [[Francisco Caro de Torres]], as well as the frontispiece for the ''Obras de San Juan de la Cruz'' (1630), commissioned by the widow of [[Pedro Madrigal]]. Other works include his contributions to ''El glorioso doctor San Ildefonso'' by [[Salazar de Mendoza]] ([[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], c. 1618) and to ''El embajador'' by [[Juan de Vera y Zúñiga]] (1620). The latter is one of his most renowned works, because of the clarity of the line and the play of light.

==References== *{{cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=II L-Z |editor=Walter Armstrong |editor2=Robert Edmund Graves |page=310 | publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&q=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers&pg=PA1}} * Enciclopedia Espasa, tomo 46. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070113232713/http://www.oronoz.com/leefoto.php?referencia=127140 Sevilla archivo municipal] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=cp-lN7X3iRUC&dq=alardo+popma&pg=PA194 Los Reyes Solares. Author Víctor Mínguez, Victor Manuel Minguez Cornelles]

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