callot

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Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law
Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church
A plant coif or skullcap
Same as Calotte
A close cap without visor or brim
Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets
Jacques Callot
born 1592/93, Nancy, Fr. died March 24, 1635, Nancy French etcher, engraver, and draftsman. He learned the technique of engraving in Rome. In 1612, at the court of the Medici family in Florence, he was employed to make pictorial records of pageants and feasts. He had a genius for caricature and the grotesque; his series of etchings The Miseries of War (1633), documenting the atrocities of the Thirty Years' War, was used as a source by Francisco de Goya. His output was prodigious; more than 1,400 etchings and 2,000 drawings survive. One of the greatest of all etchers, he was also one of the first major artists to practice the graphic arts exclusively
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