Heilige Paulus
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Dutch
De Heilige Paulus zit op een rots, omringd door boeken. Op de achtergrond is het verhaal van zijn bekering te zien: hoe hij onderweg naar Damascus getroffen door een groot licht en een stem uit de hemel van zijn paard viel. onder de voorstelling een onderschrift in Latijn.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-4755
Meanwhile, in the life of Jacques Callot
The whole life1608–1611 · Workplace
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 · Workplace
Florence
1614–1621
At the court of Cosimo II de’ Medici
Under Parigi’s direction Callot works at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de’ Medici in the Uffizi, designing festivals and theatrical performances — later these give him themes for his series of grotesque prints; during his Florentine years he becomes an independent master and often works for the Medici.
1617
Switches to hard ground and repeated biting
From 1617 Callot uses, instead of the soft ground customary until then, the acid-resistant hard ground of Florentine joiners and furniture-makers; it allows the plate to be bitten repeatedly, with parts of the spatial planes successively covered by varnish, and gives broad tonal gradations; he is also credited with the échoppe, an etching needle with a slanted end that produces a swelling line.
1621
Returns to Nancy after the death of Cosimo II
