The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...

100 Cornelius Cort

both in Holland, in the year 1536. an admirable Master in the art of Graving, which tho it be the same with Painting, as to us Design, yet differs very much from it in the Practice; for the one is performed by the gentle touches and pliableness of the Pencil, the other by the sharpness of the Steel and a steady hand; Painting has its perfection in the natural application of the Colours to the body they should represent, the other only in describing its Contours, Relievos, Lights and Shadows, and though it be reduced only to ••lack and white, or rather as Artist call it, to Clair-obsture; yet it represents the Superficies of bodies their Form and Roundness, with no less beauty, force and elegance, then the best of Pictures. He made Italy for along time, the place of his residence where he graved the Designs of Raphael Ʋrbin, Titian and others. He died at Rome. Anno. Dom, 1578.