Cornelis Cort (c. 1533 – c. 1578)

• Was a Dutch engraver and draughtsman.
• He spent the last 12 years of his life in Italy, where he was known as Cornelio Fiammingo.

• He was Born in Hoorn or Edam.

• Cort may have been a pupil of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert in the 1550s in Haarlem.

• His first known engravings were published in Antwerp around 1553.

• The publisher was Hieronymous Cock.

• Cort moved to Venice and lived in the house of Titian in 1565 and 1566.

• He produced engravings based on Titian's works.

• Among these are the well-known copperplates of "St Jerome in the Desert", the "Magdalen", "Prometheus", "Diana and Actaeon", and "Diana and Calisto". 

• From Italy he wandered back to the Netherlands, but he returned to Venice soon after 1567, proceeding thence to Bologna and Rome.

• In Rome he founded the well-known school in which, as Bartsch tells us, the simple line of Marcantonio was modified by a brilliant touch of the burin.

• Afterwards imitated and perfected by Agostino Carracci in Italy and Nicolaes de Bruyn in the Netherlands.

• Cort visited Florence between 1569 and 1571 probably working for the Medici family.

• He returned to Titian in Venice in 1571-1572.

• He spent the last year of his life in Rome, where he died.

• His connection with Cock and Titian is pleasantly illustrated in a letter addressed to the latter by Dominick Lampson of Liège in 1567.

• Cort is said to have engraved upwards of one hundred and fifty-one plates. 

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