A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . s ])arts ofthe design is a third factor of scarcely less importance. Despitethe efficacy of these means to render the most varied tone,the yielding folds of cloth, the shimmer of silk, the glister ofsteel, the whole tendency is a questionable encroachment on thedomain of painting, which Diirer, Marcantonio, and the greatestmasters of line had, perhaps consciously, avoided. But, for good orfor ill, there are few rivals of Goltzius and his pupils,
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . s ])arts ofthe design is a third factor of scarcely less importance. Despitethe efficacy of these means to render the most varied tone,the yielding folds of cloth, the shimmer of silk, the glister ofsteel, the whole tendency is a questionable encroachment on thedomain of painting, which Diirer, Marcantonio, and the greatestmasters of line had, perhaps consciously, avoided. But, for good orfor ill, there are few rivals of Goltzius and his pupils, Jan Muller,Jacob Matham, and Jan Saenredam, as virtuosi of the powerful are some large portraits by Jan Muller { the ^ Of these a certain number are strictly silver plaques or medallions [ theRobert Earl of Leicester, B. 175), from which impressions happen to have been taken(the inscription appearing, of course, in reverse). Simon van de Passe was anotherengraver who did a good many works of the kind, more particularly of the membersof the court of James I. and Charles I. They were mostly on silver, sometimeson Sintifif innmfcs animcs, d corda miiijftnj Fig. 47.—Hendrik Goltzius. The Standard-bearer. 122 THE DECLINE OF ORIGINAL ENGRAVING CornelisBloemaert. His influenceon the Frenchschool. The brothers Wierix. The Van dePasse family. Archduke Albert, after Rubens), with remarkable backgrounds ofdark horizontal shading, interspersed with streaks of light. The broad manner of engraving practised in the school ofGoltzius was continued in a somewhat mollified form by CornelisBloemaert (b. 1603).^ He followed Mellan in a tendency to alight tonic scheme, and probably owed to the same source his simplemethod of shading. He worked for some time in Paris (after 1630),afterwards migrating to Italy, where he seems to have passed therest of his life. Many French engravers appear to have been hispupils or come under his influence in Rome { Charles Aud
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