Cornelis Cort
Cornelis Cort (c. 1533 – c. 17 March 1578
Biography
Born in
Cort moved to Venice and lived in the house of Titian in 1565 and 1566. He produced engravings based on Titian's works. Among these are the well-known copperplates of "St Jerome in the Desert", the "Magdalen", "Prometheus", "Diana and Actaeon", and "Diana and Callisto". From Italy he wandered back to the Netherlands, but he returned to Venice soon after 1567, proceeding thence to Bologna and Rome, where he produced engravings from all the great masters of the time.[3]
In Rome he founded the well-known school in which, as Bartsch tells us, the simple line of Marcantonio was modified by a brilliant touch of the
Cort visited
The art collector
References
- ^ a b c d "Cornelis Cort entry at the Netherlands Institute for Art History". Rkd.nl. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ "Portret van Bernard Van Orley". lib.ugent.be. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Cumberland, George, An Essay on the Utility of Collecting the Best Works of the Ancient (London, Payne and Foss, 1827) page 6 online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 12 July 2008
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cort, Cornelis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 205. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Cornelis Cort (see index)