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CORNELIS CORT (1536-1578)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORT (1536-1578)  , Dutch engraver, was See also:born at See also:Horn in See also:Holland, and studied See also:engraving under Hieronymus Cockx of See also:Antwerp . About 1565 he went to See also:Venice, where See also:Titian employed him to execute the well-known copperplates of St See also:Jerome in the See also:Desert, the Magdalen, See also:Prometheus, See also:Diana and See also:Actaeon, and Diana and Calisto . From See also:Italy he wandered back to the See also:Netherlands, but he returned to Venice soon after 1567, proceeding thence to See also:Bologna and See also:Rome, where he produced engravings from all the See also:great masters of the See also:time . At Rome he founded the well-known school in which, as Bartsch tells us, the See also:simple See also:line of See also:Marcantonio was modified by a brilliant See also:touch of the burin, afterwards imitated and perfected by See also:Agostino See also:Caracci in Italy and See also:Nicolas de Bruyn in the Netherlands . Before visiting Italy, See also:Cort had been content to copy See also:Michael See also:Coxcie, F . See also:Floris, See also:Heemskerk, G . Mostaert, Bartholomaus Spranger and Stradan . In Italy he gave circulation to the See also:works of See also:Raphael, Titian, Polidoro da See also:Caravaggio, Baroccio, Giulio See also:Clovio, See also:Muziano and the Zuccari . His connexion with Cockx and Titian is pleasantly illustrated in a See also:letter addressed to the latter by Dominick Lampson of See also:Liege in 1567 . Cort is said to have engraved upwards of one See also:hundred and fifty-one plates . In Italy he was known as Cornelio Fiammingo .

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