Auceps é chartis confectus arte cucullos Interius fisco linit: in scrobibus locat: indit

Title

Auceps é chartis confectus arte cucullos Interius fisco linit: in scrobibus locat: indit

Description

Depiction of a bird hunt. Hunting print engraved in the years 1578 to ca.1596 by Philips Galle and others associated with him. From Venationes ferarum avium piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum mutuae bestiarum.A series of prints about hunting. Engraved by Collaert, Jan Collaert II or Hans Collaert II (ca. 1561, Antwerp - in or after 1620, Antwerp) was a Flemish engraver and printmaker working in Antwerp around the turn of the 17th century. Ppublished by Johannes Galle, ca. 1665/75 in Antwerp.

ca. 1635

Artist

Stradanus/ Straet (1523-1605)

Jan van der Straet ( 1523 - 1605) Giovanni Stradano or Stradanus was born in Belgium and worked later in Florenz, Italy. Jan van der Straet began his training in his father's workshop and later continued it with Pieter Aertsen in Antwerp. He worked with Francesco Salviati on the decoration of the Belvedere near the Vatican. After his return to Florence, he devoted himself to the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio and the villa of Poggio a Caiano. Particularly noteworthy were three drawings, distributed as engravings, in which he depicted the discovery of America in 1589, including America.

Historical Description

Hunting is one of the most primitive activities in human history and is older than anatomically modern humans themselves. The oldest undisputed archaeological evidence for hunting dates from the Old Pleistocene and coincides with the emergence and spread of Homo erectus about 1.7 million years ago. Hunting enabled significant steps in human evolution through the associated need for specialization, division of labor, and advance planning among hunters, such as in the production of tools and hunting weapons. Jointly conducted hunting promoted social and communicative skills and formed one of the foundations of human culture. With the spread of sedentarization of man in the course of the Neolithic Revolution and the beginning of agriculture and animal husbandry, hunting became of secondary importance as a source of nutrition for large parts of the population. At the same time, the changed living conditions in the protection of cultivated land from game damage and the control of predators to protect livestock also resulted in new uses for hunting. In the course of time the most different kinds of hunting have developed, which are adapted to special situations or the hunting of certain animal species. There are several ways to systematize at least some of the hunting types. One of the most common classifications distinguishes according to the number of hunters involved, especially in individual and social hunting.