Jacobus Faber (c. 1500-c. 1550), un graveur français à Bâle
The metal engraver from Lorraine, Jacobus Faber, worked in Basel from at least 1518 until 1523/24 mostly for the Basel printer Johannes Froben. From as early as June 1518, one can find in Froben’s books borders in the French style, which Faber brought probably from Paris or Lyon. When Hans Holbein l...
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2005
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| Résumé: | The metal engraver from Lorraine, Jacobus Faber, worked in Basel from at least
1518 until 1523/24 mostly for the Basel printer Johannes Froben. From as early as
June 1518, one can find in Froben’s books borders in the French style, which Faber
brought probably from Paris or Lyon. When Hans Holbein left Lucerne for Basel in
1519, there appear in Froben’s output (besides wood engravings by Hans Herman,
and later by Hans Lützelburger, from drawings by the famous Augsburg illustrator)
metal engraved title borders and initials from designs by Holbein, based on subjects
suggested by his collaborator, the philologist Beatus Rhenanus, and bearing Faber’s
monogram (Herman and Liitzelburger also monogrammed their engravings). From
1522 engravings by Faber can be found in work produced by other Basel printers
such as Andreas Cratender, Adam Petri, Valentinus Curio, and Johannes Bebel.
While working for Cratender, Faber met his collaborator, the future Basel reformer
Johannes Oecolompadius, author and publisher, notably of the commentaries on
the Gospels of Jacques Lefevre of Etaples, which appeared in 1523, shortly after the
original Paris edition of 1522. Faber acted as messenger between the reformers of
Basel and those of Paris such as Jacques Lefèvre and Guillaume Farel. After he left
Basel in 1523/24, Faber continued to engrave borders and illustrations for French
publishers in Paris and Lyons; he was thus the means by which Holbein’s style spread
into French publishing. In 1534/35, Jacques Lefevre, dit le Tailleur d’histoires was
indicted in Paris accused of heresy, but was discharged; he died in Paris or Lyon
around 1550. |
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