Plantin-Moretus Museum

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium which makes a speciality of the paintings of the 16th-century printers Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus. It is placed of their former house and printing establishment, the Plantin Press, at the Vrijdagmarkt Friday Market in Antwerp, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site considering that 2005. The printing employer changed into based in the 16th century via Christophe Plantin, who acquired kind from the main typefounders of the day in Paris. Plantin was a chief figure in modern printing with pursuits in humanism; his eight-volume, multi-language Plantin Polyglot Bible with Hebrew, Aramaic,

Greek and Syriac texts was one of the most complicated productions of the length Plantin's is now suspected of being as a minimum linked to contributors of heretical companies known as the Familists, and this may have led him to spend time in exile in his local France. View of the courtyard of the museum. After Plantin's demise it changed into owned via his son-in-law Jan Moretus. While maximum printing concerns disposed in their collections of older type within the eighteenth and nineteenth century in response to changing tastes, the Plantin-Moretus enterprise "piously preserved the collection of its founder.