Cornelis Cort

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Cornelis Cort , portrait by Hans Speckaert
Cornelis Cort: The battle of Hans Speckaert Zama . Copper engraving (1567) after the painting by Giulio Romano : The battle of Scipio against Hannibal , also: The battle with the elephants ; the painting was based on four studies of Hanno , the elephant Pope Leo X.

Cornelis Cort (* 1533 in Hoorn in Holland; † March 17, 1578 in Rome ) was a Dutch engraver .

Life

Cornelis Cort worked for the publishing house of the Antwerp engraver Hieronymus Cock , and most of his engravings appeared there without his name. Around 1566 he went to Venice , where Tizian lodged him , for whom he engraved various works in copper. Some time later, Cort settled in Rome , where he worked successfully and founded a school. Agostino Carracci was one of his students .

Act

With the technique of the so-called “swelling line”, which achieved the effect of light and shadow in parallel strokes, he expanded the previously accustomed hatching with another means of expression. The invention of this technique is attributed to Cornelis Cort, as well as the introduction of larger formats for copperplate engravings.

literature

Web links

Commons : Cornelis Cort  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Koschatzky (1981) p. 108ff .; P. 113
personal data
SURNAME Cort, Cornelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1533
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoorn in Holland
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1578
Place of death Rome