La Ioyevse & magnifique entrée de Monseigneur Françoys, fils de France, et frere vnicqve dv Roy, par la grace de Dieu, Dvc de Brabant, d'Anjou, Alençon, Berri, &c. en sa tres-renommée ville d'Anvers
A 1582 printed account of the Joyous and Magnificent Entry of François, Duke of Anjou and brother of the King of France, into Antwerp, published by Christophe Plantin with engravings by Abraham de Bruyn and Crispin van den Broeck for courtly and civic audiences. Its pictures are engraved architectural stage façades for the ceremonial arches, with tiered columns, obelisks, flags, flaming torches, and crowded processional figures, offering a designer strong models for decorative frontispieces and classical ornament.
