person
Jacques Callot
Callot
also: Callot
French printmaker (1592-1635) whose series 'The Miseries of War' shaped the visual memory of the Thirty Years' War; Rilke subtitles his war cycle 'Charcoal Sketches in Callot's Manner.'
Reading notes
- Early Poems §72 Callot's Manner
Jacques Callot (1592-1635), French engraver whose series 'The Miseries of War' fixed the iconography of the Thirty Years' War; Rilke's cycle imitates his etcher's eye.