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Description:
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and
publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque
periods. Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities
of early European printing along with Paris and Venice, it is
associated with the history of the invention and spread of
typography. Its name refers to the greatest printer-publisher
of the second half of the 16th century: Christophe Plantin (c.
1520-1589). The monument is of outstanding architectural value.
It contains exhaustive evidence of the life and work of what
was the most prolific printing and publishing house in Europe
in the late 16th century. The building of the company, which
remained in activity until the 1867, contains a large
collection of old printing equipment, an extensive library,
invaluable archives and works of art, among them a painting by
Rubens. Through the publications of the Officina Plantiniana,
the Plantin-Moretus complex is a testimony to the major role
played by this important centre of 16th century European
humanism in the development of science and culture.Considered
as an integral part of the Memory of the World (UNESCO, 2001),
the Plantinian Archives, including the business archives of the
Officina, the books of commercial accounts and the
correspondence with a number of world-renowned scholars and
humanists, provide an outstanding testimony to a cultural
tradition of the first importance.As an outstanding example of
the relationship between the living environment of a family
during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the world of work and
the world of commerce, the Plantin-Moretus Complex is of
unrivalled Documentary value relating to significant periods of
European history: the Renaissance, the Baroque era and
Classicism.The Plantin-Moretus complex is tangibly associated
with ideas, beliefs, technologies and literary and artistic
works of outstanding universal significance.

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