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Jan van Calcar

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31: 42: 186: 217: 107:. Calcar entered Titian's school in 1536 and was accepted to his faculty for his extraordinarily accurate copies of the works of that master. Calcar appears to have worked first at Dordrecht, but the greater part of his life was spent at Naples, and there, as Vasari tells us, "the fairest hopes had been conceived respecting his future progress". 155:, were so extraordinary that they deceived many critics of the day. His pictures are to be seen in Berlin, Paris, Florence, Vienna, and Prague, and his original works are, as a rule, portraits, although at Prague there is a remarkable "Nativity" by him, which was once the property of Rubens. 196: 262: 272: 267: 132: 221: 171:
Williamson, George. "Jan Stephanus van Kalcker". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Volume 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
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which contained many intricately detailed drawings of human dissections, often in allegorical poses.
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work on anatomy. The most notable among these is the anatomical study of the human body entitled
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Calcar is also said to have drawn the portraits of the artists in the early edition of Vasari's
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refers to him several times, mainly with respect to his having been a pupil of
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Jan van Calcar is assumed to have been the illustrator of Vesalius's
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illustrations of anatomical studies which accompanied
122:, and others credit Calcar with the eleven large 138:On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books 8: 164: 133:De humani corporis fabrica libri septem 263:Printmakers from the Holy Roman Empire 7: 273:Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire 205:. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 268:Artists from the Kingdom of Naples 195:Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " 25: 215: 184: 99:sometime between 1499 and 1510. 95:Calcar was born in the Duchy of 1: 73: 70:Ioannes Stephanus Calcarensis 27:German-born Italian painter 289: 197:Jan Stephanus van Kalcker 69: 61: 50: 38: 229:Jan Stefan van Calcar 224:at Wikimedia Commons 222:Jan Stefan van Calcar 202:Catholic Encyclopedia 83:-born painter in the 54:Jan Steven van Calcar 44: 33: 258:Medical illustrators 37:by Maximilian Franck 128:Andreas Vesalius's 62:Giovanni da Calcar 51: 39: 220:Media related to 85:Kingdom of Naples 81:Holy Roman Empire 35:Iohann van Calcar 16:(Redirected from 280: 219: 206: 188: 187: 172: 169: 120:Carel van Mander 78: 75: 21: 288: 287: 283: 282: 281: 279: 278: 277: 238: 237: 213: 194: 185: 181: 176: 175: 170: 166: 161: 113: 93: 76: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 286: 284: 276: 275: 270: 265: 260: 255: 250: 240: 239: 236: 235: 212: 211:External links 209: 208: 207: 180: 177: 174: 173: 163: 162: 160: 157: 116:Giorgio Vasari 112: 109: 92: 89: 26: 24: 18:Jan Van Calcar 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 285: 274: 271: 269: 266: 264: 261: 259: 256: 254: 251: 249: 246: 245: 243: 234: 230: 227: 226: 225: 223: 218: 210: 204: 203: 198: 192: 191:public domain 183: 182: 178: 168: 165: 158: 156: 154: 150: 146: 141: 139: 135: 134: 129: 125: 121: 117: 110: 108: 106: 102: 98: 90: 88: 86: 82: 79:–1546) was a 71: 67: 63: 59: 55: 48: 43: 36: 32: 19: 248:1490s births 214: 200: 167: 144: 142: 137: 131: 114: 94: 53: 52: 46: 34: 253:1545 deaths 77: 1499 242:Categories 179:References 149:Giorgione 140:(1543). 231:in the 193::  153:Raphael 124:woodcut 58:Italian 47:Fabrica 105:Titian 101:Vasari 97:Cleves 159:Notes 145:Lives 111:Works 66:Latin 91:Life 233:RKD 199:". 136:or 72:) ( 244:: 118:, 87:. 74:c. 68:: 64:, 60:: 56:( 20:)

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Jan Van Calcar


Italian
Latin
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Naples
Cleves
Vasari
Titian
Giorgio Vasari
Carel van Mander
woodcut
Andreas Vesalius's
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem
Giorgione
Raphael
public domain
Jan Stephanus van Kalcker
Catholic Encyclopedia

Jan Stefan van Calcar
Jan Stefan van Calcar
RKD
Categories
1490s births
1545 deaths
Medical illustrators
Printmakers from the Holy Roman Empire
Artists from the Kingdom of Naples

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