Grammatica (Spraakkunst), Cornelis Cort, 1565
Cornelis Cort, portraitCornelis CortDutch, 1533–1578

Grammatica (Spraakkunst)

1565 · Print

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Where is “Grammatica (Spraakkunst)” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
The museum

About the work

Museum text in Dutch

Grammatica zit als oudere lerares te midden van haar leerlingen. In de klas zitten leerlingen van verschillende leeftijden. Achter leren de jongste kinderen schrijven. Links voor leest een ouder kind in een boek. Grammatica helpt een andere leerling die met een boek naast haar staat. In haar schoot ligt een wijsstok. Op de grond liggen boeken van beroemde schrijvers op het gebied van de spraakkunst zoals Donatus en Diomedes.

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Details

Accession number
RP-P-BI-6396

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

In the life of Cornelis Cort

The whole life
  1. 1560–1565 · Workplace

    Northern Low Countries

  2. 1565–1566

    Move to Venice, Living in Titian's House

    In 1565–1566 Cort lived in Venice in the house of Titian, who immediately recognized his abilities and gave him his finest paintings to reproduce.

  3. 1565–1566 · Workplace

    Venice

  4. 1566–1569 · Workplace

    Rome

  5. after 1567

    Return to Italy: Venice, Bologna, Rome

    Having returned from Italy to the Netherlands, Cort left again for Venice shortly after 1567, and from there traveled to Bologna and Rome, where he engraved after the paintings of the great masters of the time.

  6. 1567

    Lampsonius's Letter to Titian

    Cort's connection with Cock and Titian is illustrated by a letter of 1567 from Dominicus Lampsonius of Liège addressed to Titian, in which Cock is named as Cort's teacher.

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