Cornelis CortDutch, 1533–1578De Schone Kunsten
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
Cornelis Cort made this depiction of an idealized art academy about 150 years after the appearance of the first engraved prints. Depicted prominently in the right foreground is the art of printmaking in the guise of an engraver cutting the first lines in a plate with a burin. The art of printmaking is here on an equal footing with the traditional visual arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture): it has claimed its rightful place as a fully-fledged art form!
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-BI-6381
What it shows
Sources
- Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 6 days ago
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
