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Callot
[ ka-loh ]
noun
- Jacques [zhahk], 1592?鈥1635, French engraver and etcher.
Example Sentences
In her reimagining of Callot鈥檚 scenes, the characters appear as dignified adventurers, traveling on horseback through colorful landscapes of patterned textiles.
In her 2021 series 鈥淥ut of Egypt,鈥 Mirga-Tas used as source material four prints by Jacques Callot, a 17th-century printmaker, in which Roma people are depicted as bawdy, lazy charlatans.
鈥淚t feels like no one is working for the people, that everyone just has their own political game,鈥 said Jocelyn Callot, a nurse on the city鈥檚 Eastside, who is undecided.
Meanwhile, Weyman sets chesslike political maneuverings against an ever-shifting backdrop of palaces, rooming houses, dark alleys and riotous taverns, occasionally inserting the kind of grisly tableaux associated with printmaker Jacques Callot: 鈥淗ere and there . . . a man dangled on a rude gallows; under which sportsmen returning from the chase and ladies who had been for an airing rode laughing on their way.鈥
The fourth human member of the group, Andr茅 Callot, is credited as the editor of 鈥淭he Puzzlers 2,鈥 in which he also delivers a wonderfully atmospheric voice-over monologue.
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