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DENIS CALVART (1540-1619)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DENIS
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CALVART (1540-1619)  , Flemish painter, was
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born at
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Antwerp . After studying landscape-
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painting for some
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time in his native
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city he went to
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Bologna, where he perfected himself in the
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anatomy of the human
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form under Prospero
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Fontana, and so completely lost the mannerism of Flemish
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art that his paintings appear to be the
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work of an
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Italian . From Bologna he went to
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Rome, where he assisted Lorenzo Sabbatini (1533–1577) in his
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works for the papal
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palace, and devoted much of his time to copying and studying the works of
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Raphael . He ultimately returned to Bologna and founded a school, of which the greatest ornaments are Guido and
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Domenichino . His works are especially admired for the
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power of grouping and colouring which they display .

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