Cornelis Cort (1533 Hoorn – 1578 Rome)
Dutch copper engraver and etcher
Cornelis Cort first worked for the publisher Hieronymus
Cock (1510 – 1570) in Antwerp. From about 1566 he made
copper engravings and etchings for Titian in Venice
(e.g. landscape sketches with saints) and somewhat later
he settled in Rome, where he founded his own art school.
Again he engraved landscape sketches with saints,
this time for Hieronymo Muziano. Some of the ethings
have the privilege of Pope Gregory XIII.
Girolamo Muziano (1528 Brescia – 1592 Rome)
Italian painter and draughtsman
Girolamo (Hieronymo) Muziano first studied under
Girolamo Romanino (ca. 1485 - 1562) in Brescia, then
he moved to Venice where he was influenced by Titian.
From about 1548 he lived in Rome. There he worked for
Michelangelo and served as superintendent of works of
art for Pope Gregory XIII.
Muziano mainly made frescos, paintings and drawings
with scenes of the life of Jesus Christ and of many
Saints, but also skilfully worked out landscape sketches.
He had the talent to combine both - portrait and landscape
painting - very masterly, which can very well be seen
in our etchings.
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