CORT, CORNELIS (1536-1578)

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CORT, CORNELIS (1536-1578) , Dutch engraver, was born at Horn in Holland, and studied engraving under Hieronymus Cockx of Antwerp. About 1565 he went to Venice, where Titian employed him to execute the well-known copperplates of St Jerome in the Desert, the Magdalen, Prometheus,

Diana

DIANA

and

Actaeon

ACTAEON

, and

Diana

DIANA

and Calisto. From Italy he wandered back to the

Netherlands

NETHERLANDS

, but he returned to Venice soon after 1567, proceeding thence to Bologna and Rome, where he produced engravings from all the

great

GREAT

masters of the time. At Rome he founded the well-known school in which, as Bartsch tells us, the simple line of Marcantonio was modified by a brilliant

touch

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

of the burin, afterwards imitated and perfected by Agostino Caracci in Italy and Nicolas de Bruyn in the

Netherlands

NETHERLANDS

. Before visiting Italy, Cort had been content to copy Michael Coxcie, F.

Floris

FLORIS, FRANS

, Heemskerk, G. Mostaert, Bartholomaus Spranger and Stradan. In Italy he gave circulation to the works of

Raphael

RAPHAEL (Hebrew smm, " God heals ")

, Titian, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Baroccio, Giulio Clovio, Muziano and the Zuccari. His connexion with Cockx and Titian is pleasantly illustrated in a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

addressed to the latter by Dominick Lampson of Liege in 1567. Cort is said to have engraved upwards of one hundred and fifty-one plates. In Italy he was known as Cornelio Fiammingo.

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