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20: 31: 175: 206: 96:. Calcar entered Titian's school in 1536 and was accepted to his faculty for his extraordinarily accurate copies of the works of that master. Calcar appears to have worked first at Dordrecht, but the greater part of his life was spent at Naples, and there, as Vasari tells us, "the fairest hopes had been conceived respecting his future progress". 144:, were so extraordinary that they deceived many critics of the day. His pictures are to be seen in Berlin, Paris, Florence, Vienna, and Prague, and his original works are, as a rule, portraits, although at Prague there is a remarkable "Nativity" by him, which was once the property of Rubens. 185: 251: 261: 256: 121: 210: 160:
Williamson, George. "Jan Stephanus van Kalcker". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Volume 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
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which contained many intricately detailed drawings of human dissections, often in allegorical poses.
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work on anatomy. The most notable among these is the anatomical study of the human body entitled
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Calcar is also said to have drawn the portraits of the artists in the early edition of Vasari's
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refers to him several times, mainly with respect to his having been a pupil of
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Jan van Calcar is assumed to have been the illustrator of Vesalius's
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illustrations of anatomical studies which accompanied
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Italian
Latin
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Naples
Cleves
Vasari
Titian
Giorgio Vasari
Carel van Mander
woodcut
Andreas Vesalius's
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem
Giorgione
Raphael
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Jan Stephanus van Kalcker
Catholic Encyclopedia

Jan Stefan van Calcar
Jan Stefan van Calcar
RKD
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1490s births
1545 deaths
Medical illustrators
Printmakers from the Holy Roman Empire
Artists from the Kingdom of Naples
Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire

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