Frans van Severdonck

This printmaker filled the page with flocks of sheep, their woolly bodies pressed into dense, overlapping groups. A 16th-century tradition of animal studies runs through the work, where every head and leg is counted and arranged like a visual census. Look closer at *Grup de oi* to see how the artist balanced texture and pattern without a single line of text to explain it. Tap the print to zoom in on the hatching that turns white wool into solid shapes, or jump straight to the era’s animalier prints nearby.