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    Claude Mellan (23 May 1598 – 9 September 1688) was a French draughtsman, engraver, and painter. Mellan was born in Abbeville, the son of a customs official...
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    technique called stippling, first used around 1505 by Giulio Campagnola. Claude Mellan was one of many 17th-century engravers with a very well-developed technique...
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    Parish Church of St Peter, Seville. Head of Christ on the Sudarium Claude Mellan, 1649. Diptych of Saint Veronica with Christ and the Virgin Mary Bernardo...
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    Veronica's veil by Claude Mellan (c. 1649)...
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    French actor Claude Mellan (1598–1688), French engraver and painter Claude Melnot Wilson (1898–1918), Canadian World War I flying ace Claude Ménard, several...
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    are known from engravings by Michel Dorigny, François Tortebat, and Claude Mellan. In 1626 he married Virginia da Vezzo, "a painter in her own right....
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    influenced by the painter Philippe de Champaigne, and his engraving, by Claude Mellan and Jean Morin. Around 1650 he became a collaborator and friend of the...
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    Antoine Dreux d'Aubray, poisoned by his daughter, the Marquise de Brinvilliers. Engraving by Claude Mellan...
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    the Head of Holofernes (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes), engraved by Claude Mellan in 1626. Another version of the painting was auctioned at Christie's...
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    September 2 – Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631) September 9 – Claude Mellan, French painter and engraver (b. 1598) September 13 – Sir John Bright...
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    With Gassendi's support, notably financially, he and the engraver Claude Mellan began to produce a map of the Moon's surface, but again Peiresc died...
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    Girolamo Frescobaldi in a 1619 engraving by Claude Mellan...
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    Leonardos Philaras by Claude Mellan, 1673....
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    Marseille [fr] (1945–2010), historian, specialist of economic history Claude Mellan (1598–1688), painter Jean Miélot († 1472), private secretary to the...
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    engraving, often in the same work. The most important artists were Claude Mellan, an etcher from the 1630s onwards, and his contemporary Jean Morin,...
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    John Barclay John Barclay by Claude Mellan Born 28 January 1582 Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, Kingdom of France Died 15 August 1621 (aged 39) Rome, Papal...
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    Girolamo Frescobaldi in a 1619 engraving by Claude Mellan...
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    held in the Albani Library. Corvina was the subject of a portrait by Claude Mellan in 1636. Portrait of a young gentleman holding gloves and leaning on...
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  • and Mary Magdalene Caravaggio, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini May 23 - Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter (died 1688) July 31 – Alessandro Algardi...
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    Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester, English politician (d. 1653) May 23 – Claude Mellan, French painter and engraver (d. 1688) June 4 – Åke Henriksson Tott...
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  • (1590–1650), painter and engraver Jacques Callot (1592–1635), engraver Claude Mellan (1598–1688), painter, draughtsman and engraver Balthasar Moncornet (1600–1668)...
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    Luciani, and learned engraving with a burin from Egidio Sadeler, then Claude Mellan. He created a series of portraits of the Doges of Venice and procurators...
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    Borghese's new palazzo on the Quirinale. Filippo Baldinucci, the biographer of Claude Lorrain, asserts that Cardinal Bentivoglio launched the artist's career...
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  • Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester, English politician (d. 1653) May 23 – Claude Mellan, French painter and engraver (d. 1688) June 4 – Åke Henriksson Tott...
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    September 2 – Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631) September 9 – Claude Mellan, French painter and engraver (b. 1598) September 13 – Sir John Bright...
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    he encountered such contemporaries as Simon Vouet, Jacques Stella, Claude Mellan and Nicolas Poussin. Later, around April or May 1626, Blanchard progressed...
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    lost. Strutt thought that Burghers' best plates were his copies after Claude Mellan, and his topographical work, much of it for the antiquary Thomas Hearne...
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  • Abraham Bosse Et, En Jacques Callot Et François Chauveau, En Claude Lefèbvre En Claude Mellan En Robert Nanteuil En Gilles Rousselet, En, Et Ludwig von Siegen...
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    Johann Friedrich Greuter Andrea Sacchi Guido Reni Pietro da Cortona Claude Mellan Vaiani began her art career painting as her father's assistant. She...
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    Parnassus, and the book frontispiece drawn by Poussin and engraved by Claude Mellan for an edition of Virgil published by the Imprimerie Royale in 1641–1642...
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