{"id":18428,"date":"2023-05-19T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18428"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:46:11","slug":"jacques-callot-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/jacques-callot-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Callot Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Jacques Callot (French, c.\u20091592\u20131635)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Callot made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the Baroque period featuring soldiers, clowns, beggars, court life, and religious and military images. He apprenticed in engraving in Rome and worked for the Medici court. His prints were well-known; many were collected by Francisco Goya and Rembrandt. Known for his superior technique, Callot developed the \u00e9choppe, an etching-needle with a slanting oval section at the end, as well as an improved recipe for the etching ground that reduced \u201cfoul biting,\u201d or unintended splotches, and allowed for a deeper etch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.23.12-720x900.webp\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" class=\"wp-image-18429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.23.12-720x900.webp 720w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.23.12-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.23.12-768x960.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.23.12-502x628.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1996.23.12.webp 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Callot (French, c.\u20091592\u20131635) Callot made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18428","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18428\/revisions\/19151"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}