About the Author

Lee Hendrix is senior curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Joris Hoefnagel was a Flemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist, draftsman and merchant, noted for his illustrations of natural history subjects, topographical views, illuminations and mythological works. He was one of the last manuscript illuminators and made a major contribution to the development of topographical drawing. Georg Bocskay was imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and a master calligrapher.