A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . irst fully developed by such designers asPieter Coeck of Alost [ the wood-cuts in C. Scribonius Grapheus, Spectaculorumin Susceptione Philippi, Antwerp, 1550). TOPOGRAPHY—ORNAMENT 125 contemporaries from the convention of strap and grotesque, anddeveloped an individual style ^ which combines the naturalist spiritof early sixteenth-century illumination, in its representation of bird,beast, insect, and flowers of all sorts, with the classical f
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . irst fully developed by such designers asPieter Coeck of Alost [ the wood-cuts in C. Scribonius Grapheus, Spectaculorumin Susceptione Philippi, Antwerp, 1550). TOPOGRAPHY—ORNAMENT 125 contemporaries from the convention of strap and grotesque, anddeveloped an individual style ^ which combines the naturalist spiritof early sixteenth-century illumination, in its representation of bird,beast, insect, and flowers of all sorts, with the classical feeling ofDelaune,- whom he no doubt met in Strassburg, where he was livingbetween 1568 and 1590. The goldsmith, Michel Le Blon (b. 1587) is another Fleming Michel Leof the period famous for his ornament engravings. The son of a ^Flemish settler in Frankfurt (Christiaan Le Blon, the author ofthe title-page to the 1628 edition of Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy)he must have come under the influence of the younger de Brys,though he probably left quite early in the seventeenth century,^He settled in Amsterdam, and developed a style of ornament en-. Fig. 49.—Michel Le Blon. Design for goldsmiths ornament. graving, largely white relief on dark ground, graceful and original indesign, and of wonderful precision in the cutting. The soundest elements of the system of engraving which had The reproduc-been developed to such virtuosity by Goltzius, were carried forward fye engravers . . of the schools with undiminished accomplishment by the school of engravers which ^f Rubens andgathered round the foremost Flemish painters of this, and, in fact. Van all time, Rubens and Van Dyck. * A good example is the nobilitati et vnlgo sciiu digna, Frankfurt, 1593- ^ Apparently for a considerable period in Strassburg, from about 1573 or 1576. Like so many of the emigrating French and Flemish artists of the day, he was a Protestant refugee. •^ A set of his engravings, dated 1610, wa
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