Carnaval te Florence: infanteriegevecht
Sobre la obra
En palabras del museo — en neerlandés
Gezicht op de Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, waar soldaten een schijngevecht uitvoeren voor toeschouwers, die op in ovaalvorm geplaatst tribunes zitten. Dit gevecht vond plaats tijdens het carnavalsfeest 'Guerra d'Amore', dat Cosimo II de' Medici in 1616 in Florence gaf. Onder de voorstelling twee regels Italiaanse tekst.
Rijksmuseum
Ficha
- Número de inventario
- RP-P-OB-20.859
Mientras tanto, en la vida de Jacques Callot
La vida entera1611–1621 · Lugar de trabajo
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.
