page_title: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder
section_title: General
hierarchical_section_title: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder / Work / General
caption_attribution_description: Procession of the Knights of the Garter, one of nine sheets: the sixth sheet of the procession with eight Knights (Anthony Brown, 1st Viscount Montagu and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick; Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon and Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford; Sir Henry Sidney and William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester). 1576
context_page_description: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Marc Gerard and Marcus Garret was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print designer and etcher who was active in his native Flanders and in England. He practised in many genres, including portraits, religious paintings, landscapes and architectural themes. He designed heraldic designs and decorations for tombs. He is known for his creation of a print depicting a map of his native town Bruges and the illustrations for a Dutch-language publication recounting stories from Aesop's Fables. His attention to naturalistic detail and his practice of drawing animals from life for his prints had an important influence on European book illustration. His son Marcus the Younger became a prominent court painter at the English court.
context_section_description: Gheeraerts was a painter, draughtsman, print designer, etcher and ornamemtal designer.  As many of his paintings were lost as a result of the Iconoclasm of the 16th century, he is now mainly known for his work as a printmaker and print designer. He was a keen innovator and experimented with etching at a time when woodcut and engraving were dominant techniques. For example, his 1562 birds-eye view of the town of Bruges was etched on 10 different plates, and the resulting map measures 100 x 177 cm.
caption: Procession of the Knights of the Garter
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