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Callot

Callot

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An artist from France who made detailed prints of soldiers, crowds, and everyday life in the 1600s
  • proper noun
  • /kæˈloʊ/
: Callot
  • Jacques Callot is celebrated for his intricate etchings of battles and daily life.
  • Callot's prints
  • Callot's series
  • Callot's Fair

Examples

  • Jacques Callot's Fair at Impruneta, dated 1620, is exemplary of this shift in artistic taste (Fig. 7).

    Academic text (2014)
  • The foreground areas of the Siege of Breda include several vignettes that Callot later reused in his Miseries of War.

    Academic text (2014)
  • On his return to Nancy, Callot made a second version of the print, presumably because the original plate remained in Florence.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Even so, it is Callot as much, if not more than Poussin, who represents the connecting link to the past.

    Academic text (2001)
  • More recently, it has been proposed that Callot's series promoted contemporary ideas regarding the organization of armies.

    Academic text (2014)
  • To take one particularly clear instance, Callot's Pillage of an Inn provided Galle with a template for his own treatment of the theme.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Callot arranged to have three Views of Brussels sold by Brussels print seller Jean Morel, Martin, or Marin.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Callot's print series is extraordinarily serious in tenor, offering a polemical commentary on the conduct of the military.

    Academic text (2014)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Many art historians regard Callot as a key figure in the development of printmaking in the 17th century.

Surface Forms

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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.