Hemelvaart van Christus
Om værket
Med museets ord — på nederlandsk
Christus rijst in een wolk met engelen ten hemel, terwijl de apostelen, Maria, Maria Magdalena en nog twee heilige vrouwen op aarde knielen. Deze prent is onderdeel van (de tweede staat van) een serie van 29 voorstellingen van schilderijen en sculpturen in kerken te Rome, genummerd 1-16 en 1-13. (De eerste staat van deze serie, waarin de prenten ongenummerd zijn, behelst ook een titelprent).
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Oplysninger
- Inventarnummer
- RP-P-OB-4857
Imens i livet hos Jacques Callot
Hele livet1608
Runs away from home to Rome
Secretly from his parents Jacques sets out on foot for Rome — according to legend, with wandering Romani; by one account he ran away twice and twice came back at his father’s demand, until his father finally consented to his studying in Italy.
1608 · Virkested
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1608–1611 · Virkested
Rome
1611
Studies etching with Tempesta in Florence
Having studied burin engraving in Rome with Philippe Thomassin, Callot moves to Florence, where he works with Antonio Tempesta, who teaches him the technique of line etching (by other accounts, he lived in Florence from 1612).
1611–1621 · Virkested
Florence
1612
Joins the workshop of Giulio Parigi
In Florence Callot also studies with the painter and engraver Remigio Cantagallina, and in 1612 joins the workshop of Giulio Parigi; he later often collaborates with both, coming under Parigi’s influence.
