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See also:JEAN See also:COUSIN (1500-1590) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at Soucy, near See also:Sens, and began as a See also:glass-painter, his windows in the Sainte Chapelle at See also:Vincennes being considered the finest in See also:France . As a painter of subject pictures he is ranked as the founder of the French school, as having first departed from the practice of portraits . His " Last See also:Judgment," influenced by See also:Parmigiano, is in the Louvre, and a " Descent from the See also:Cross " (1523) in the museum at See also:Mainz is attributed to him . He was known also as a sculptor, and an engraver, both in See also:etching and on See also:wood, his wood-cuts for See also:Jean le Clerc's See also:Bible (1596) and other books being his best-known See also:work . He also wrote a Livre de See also:perspective (156o), and a Livre de See also:portraiture (1571) . See Ambroise Firmin-See also:Didot, Etude sur J . See also:Cousin (1872), and Recueil See also:des teuvres choisies de J . Cousin (1873) . |
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