Hadrianus Junius (1511â1575), also known as Adriaen de Jonghe, was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, antiquarian, historiographer, emblematist, school rector, and Latin poet.
He is not to be confused with several namesakes (including a seventeenth-century Amsterdam school rector). He was not related to Franciscus Junius.
Octo Mundi Miracula is a series of engravings published in 1572 by the Flemish engraver Philips Galle, based on a set of eight drawings by Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck, with accompanying elegiac couplet verses written by Hadrianus Junius. Heemskerck's primary source was Pedro MexĂa's 1540 Silva de varia lecciĂłn, which noted how the classical sources for the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World do not agree on a consistent list.
The series is considered the first known complete visual representation of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and created the modern canonical list of seven wonders â the specific list had not existed in the various classical sources. Despite creating the modern canonical seven, the engravings included an eighth monumentâthe Colosseumâfollowing van Heemskerck's 1533 Self-Portrait with the Colosseum.