{{Short description|Flemish engraver who worked in Madrid}} {{for|the English musician|Peter Perrett}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox person |name = Pieter Perret |image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> |alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = c. 1555 |birth_place = Antwerp |death_date = {{death year and age|1625|1555}} |death_place = Madrid |nationality = |other_names = {{langx|es| Pedro Perret}} |occupation = Engraver |years_active = |known_for = |notable_works = }} '''Pieter Perret''' or '''Peter Perret''' ({{langx|es| Pedro Perret}}<ref name="NIAH" /> {{circa}} 1555–1625) was a Flemish engraver. After training in Antwerp and Rome, he worked in Madrid in the service of Philip II of Spain. He introduced into Spain the Flemish printmaking tradition and the new artistic style that was developing among Northern artists under the influence of contemporary Italian art. He is credited with renewing Spanish printmaking.<ref name=prad>[https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/perspectiva-general-del-monasterio-de-san-lorenzo/13d52494-b31d-4043-a9b3-6b0724fa2770 Blas, J. en: No sólo Goya], Museo Nacional del Prado, 2011, pp. 227-230</ref> He was known for his large-scale architectural prints, frontispieces, portraits and reproductions of contemporary artworks.<ref name="NIAH" /><ref name=prad/> == Background == Born in Antwerp around 1555, he was a pupil of Maerten de Vos and Gerard de Jode.{{r|Hollstein | page = 39-68}} Prior to 1578 he studied engraving in Rome with Cornelis Cort. After that, he returned to Antwerp, eventually moving to Bavaria, where he was appointed engraver to William IV, Duke of Bavaria and the Elector of Cologne.{{r|Ceán}} During this time, he may also have worked in Paris for publisher Nicolas Le Bon.{{r|Saur | page = 160}} thumb|330px|Overview of San Lorenzo Del Escorial, 1589
In 1584 Juan de Herrera commissioned Perret to print images of the plants and topographical views of the Monastery of San Lorenzo Del Escorial.{{r|Saur | page = 160}} Herrera was to provide the copper plates already drawn by his hand, and Perret was to engrave them for a fee of 600 ducats. Perret moved to Madrid and was bound to take on no other work until the plates were engraved.{{r|Saltillo| page = 142-143}} However, the work was not completed until 1589. That year, they were collected in a small book titled ''Sumaria y breve declaración de los diseños y estampas de la fábrica de San Lorenzo del Escorial'' and sold by Herrera. Despite the prohibition on taking on other work, Perret published the first of his portraits, that of the Empress Maria of Austria, in 1585.{{r|Gallego|page=122}}
In 1590 he returned to Antwerp where he became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1594.{{r|Rombouts| page = 377}} Between 1591 and 1595, he published some allegorical engravings based on drawings provided by Otto van Veen. Among them were works dedicated to Herrera and Philip II.{{r|Gallego|page=124}} Other works from this time are three small plates of prophets Daniel, Ezekiel, and Haggai, following designs by Nicolas van Houy for the work ''Icones prophetarum maiorum et minorum'' (1594) published in Antwerp by Philip Galle. Copies of these three plates are preserved in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid.{{r|Gallego|page=124}} [[File:perret-escorial retablo.jpg|thumb|190px|Engraving of the altarpiece in the main chapel of San Lorenzo Del Escorial]]
In 1595 he was appointed as a court engraver by Philip II, with a salary of 100 ducats per year. With the royal appointment, he established himself in Madrid, focusing on book publishing. He focused not only on book covers and portraits, but also typographic marks and small ornaments.{{r|Gallego|page=124}} Perret published at least thirty-four books while in Madrid, with more in Lisbon, where he may have moved during the Iberian Union.{{r|Saur | page = 160}}
He married around 1611 Isabel de Faria, who was born in Portugal.<ref name="NIAH" /> Their son Peter became an engraver, Hispanicized his name and went by "Pedro Perete".{{r|Gallego|page=165}}
Some of his best-known works of this time are portraits, including the ''Retrato de San Ignacio de Loyola'' ({{langx|en|Portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola}}) included in the ''Obras'' of Father Ribadeneira. Also notable are the portraits of the Cistercian theologian {{ill|Jerónimo Llamas|es}}, that of Mateo Alemán, published with the first part of ''Guzmán de Alfarache'', and that of {{ill|Ginés Rocamora|es|Ginés Rocamora y Torrano}}, collected in his ''Sphera del Universo'',{{r|Gallego|page=125}} which also included a strongly mannerist-looking allegory of ''Astronomía'', copied from {{ill|Johan Sadeler|es}}.{{r|López|page=97}}
Between 1609 and his death, he published the covers of most of the books in Madrid.{{r|Gallego|page=126}} Among the books published are ''La conquista de las Molucas'' ({{langx|en|The Conquest of the Moluccas}}), by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola in 1609, ''De la veneración que se debe a los cuerpos de los santos y a sus reliquias'' ({{langx|en|On the veneration due to the bodies of the saints and their relics}}), by Sancho Dávila Toledo, Bishop of Jaén in 1611; ''Compendio de las fiestas que se hicieron en la beatificación de la madre Teresa de Jesús'' ({{langx|en|Compendium of the festivities that took place in the beatification of Mother Teresa de Jesús}}), by Diego de San José in 1615; Council and counselor of princes, by {{ill|Lorenzo Ramírez de Prado|es}} in 1617; ''Filipe Segundo Rey de España'', by Luis Cabrera de Córdoba in 1619, with an image of Phillip II as "defender of faith,"{{r|Austrias|page=129}} He provided two interior illustrations on designs by the architect Juan Gómez de Mora. The cover of the ''Eróticas'' or ''Amatorias'', by Esteban Manuel de Villegas, printed in Nájera in 1618 by Juan de Mongastón, also seems to be by him.
== References == {{reflist|45em|refs= <ref name="NIAH">{{Cite web |title=Pieter Perret |url=https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/62765 |website=Netherlands Institute for Art History}}</ref> <ref name="Ceán">{{Cite book |last=Ceán Bermúdez |first=Juan Agustín |url=http://www.ceanbermudez.es/cean.asp |title=Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores de la Bellas Artes en España |year=1800 |volume=IV |location=Madrid |pages=87–93 |language=es |archive-date=9 March 2016 |access-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309162030/http://www.ceanbermudez.es/cean.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="Gallego">{{Cite book |last=Gallego |first=Antonio |title=Historia del grabado en España |publisher=Ediciones Cátedra |year=1999 |isbn=84-376-0209-2 |location=Madrid |language=es}}</ref> <ref name="Austrias">{{Cite book |last=Páez |first=Elena Santiago |title=Los Austrias. Grabados de la Biblioteca Nacional{{!}}catálogo de la exposición |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional (España) |year=1993 |isbn=84-7896-043-0 |location=Madrid |language=es}}</ref> <ref name="López">{{Cite book |last=López Torrijos |first=Rosa |chapter-url=https://ebuah.uah.es/dspace/handle/10017/7323 |chapter=Los años de El Escorial: imágenes históricas y simbólicas |title=El Escorial en la Biblioteca Nacional, diciembre 1985-enero 1986 |editor=Elena Santiago Páez |year=1985 |page=97 |language=es |ISBN=84-505-2529-2}}</ref> <ref name="Hollstein">{{Cite book |last=Hollstein |first=F.W.H. |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/library/14744 |title=Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 |publisher=Menno Hertzberger |year=1948 |volume=17 |location=Amsterdam}}</ref> <ref name="Saur">{{Cite book |title=Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon : die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker |publisher=K.G. Saur |year=2007 |orig-year=1948 |isbn=978-3598227967 |volume=95 |language=de}}</ref> <ref name="Saltillo">{{Cite journal |last=Saltillo |first=M. |title=Un informe de Juan Gómez de Mora sobre Pedro Perret |journal=Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones |volume=57 |year=1953 |pages=142–143 |language=es}}</ref> <ref name="Rombouts">{{Cite book |last=Rombouts |first=P |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSrRAAAAMAAJ |title=De Liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde = Les Liggeren et autres archives historiques de la Gilde Anversoise de Saint Luc |publisher=Baggerman |year=1961 |volume=1 |location=Antwerp}}</ref> }}
== Further reading == * {{Cite book |last1=Santiago Páez |first1=Elena |title=El Escorial en la Biblioteca Nacional |last2=otros |year=1985 |isbn=84-505-2529-2 |location=Madrid |publisher=Ministerio de Cultura, Direccion General del Libro y Bibliotecas |language=es}} * {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/homenajemennde02menuoft/page/583/mode/2up |chapter=Zarco del Valle-Conde las Navas (Espinosa Quesada), "Pedro Perret (1555-1639)" |title=Homenaje a Menéndez Pelayo |year=1899 |volume=I |location=Madrid |pages=582–587 |language=es |publisher=V. Suárez}} * {{Cite book |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/library/163808 |title=Diccionario historico de los mas ilustres porfesores de las bellas artes en España |publisher=Reales Academias de bellas artes de San Fernando y de la historia |year=1965 |location=Madrid}}
== External links == {{commons category}} * {{Cite web |title=Obras digitalizadas de Pedro Perret |url=http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/Search.do?numfields=1&field1=autor&field1val=%22Perret%2c+Pedro%22&field1Op=AND&exact=on&advanced=true&language=esEn |website=Biblioteca Digital Hispánica |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de España}}
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