
Jacques Callot法国, 1592–1635可否一睹真容?
阿姆斯特丹, 荷蘭
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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.
阿姆斯特丹国家博物馆
1611–1621 · 工作地
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.