![Hyacum, et Lues Venerea [The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Syphillis], plate 6 from Nova Repertum [New Inventions of Modern Times], after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus](/internal/media/dispatcher/17154/preview)
![Hyacum, et Lues Venerea [The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Syphillis], plate 6 from Nova Repertum [New Inventions of Modern Times], after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus](/internal/media/dispatcher/17154/full)
Hyacum, et Lues Venerea [The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Syphillis], plate 6 from Nova Repertum [New Inventions of Modern Times], after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
Primary
Theodor Galle
(Antwerp, Belgium, 1571–1633)
after
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
(Bruges, Belgium, 1523–Florence, Italy, 1605)
Publisher
Johannes Galle
(Antwerp, Belgium, 1600–1676)
NationalityFlemish, Europe
Datecirca 1591
MediumEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 8 × 10 7/8 in. (20.3 × 27.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 7 13/16 × 10 9/16 in. (19.9 × 26.9 cm)
Additional Dimension: 7 13/16 × 10 9/16 in. (19.9 × 26.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 2009
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2009.6
On View
Not on viewAntwerp became the center of European print production in the late sixteenth century. Its enterprising publishers coordinated vast projects illustrating an encyclopedic range of subjects. Organized by the Galle family and designed by a Flemish artist living in Florence, Nova Repertum depicted the supposed origins of important modern inventions. This scene of the preparation and ministering of a cure for syphilis is a striking inclusion and a famous image in the history of the disease.
Exhibitions
Copy after Philip Galle
1578