Callot
- proper noun
- /kæˈloʊ/
- Jacques Callot is celebrated for his intricate etchings of battles and daily life.
- Callot's prints
- Callot's series
- Callot's Fair
Examples
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Jacques Callot's Fair at Impruneta, dated 1620, is exemplary of this shift in artistic taste (Fig. 7).
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The foreground areas of the Siege of Breda include several vignettes that Callot later reused in his Miseries of War.
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On his return to Nancy, Callot made a second version of the print, presumably because the original plate remained in Florence.
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Even so, it is Callot as much, if not more than Poussin, who represents the connecting link to the past.
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More recently, it has been proposed that Callot's series promoted contemporary ideas regarding the organization of armies.
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To take one particularly clear instance, Callot's Pillage of an Inn provided Galle with a template for his own treatment of the theme.
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Callot arranged to have three Views of Brussels sold by Brussels print seller Jean Morel, Martin, or Marin.
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Callot's print series is extraordinarily serious in tenor, offering a polemical commentary on the conduct of the military.
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However, it was once again Jacques Callot's prints that provided Galle with the most recent and updated model of this Flemish theme to emulate.
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Many art historians regard Callot as a key figure in the development of printmaking in the 17th century.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Callot is a French family name best known from Jacques Callot, a famous printmaker of the 1600s who made very detailed etchings of soldiers and everyday life. A helpful way to remember Callot is to imagine him 'calling' scenes out with sharp lines on metal, so the name now stands for those detailed prints.