Jacques Callot : Theater of Realism and Fantasy (The National Museum of Western Art)

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Things printmaker Jacques Callot called, I did not know at all.

In 1592, was born in Lorraine, studied printmaking in Italy, and worked as a court Printmakers II Cosimo of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and return home then active in France, closed its short life in 1635.

Era Caro was alive, was a time when Lorraine is, go swallowed in France of Louis dynasty. Caro, must have been the eyes directly, the misery of the war.

The continuous cropping of misery of war, looting of farmers by the army, destruction of the monastery, such as people to be executed, fact that I want to avert your eyes is depicted in a manner realistic indeed.

Work that many people, collectively, suspended the neck to a tree, has been killed, it is particularly striking.

Than that prints on the theme of war of Goya , before 200 years approximately , prints this much had been made ​​was a surprise .

Caro is also left continuous cropping about Gypsy . Manner in which the rest of the gang of gypsy wandering all over Europe in a group , in the suburbs , such as the state of the party have been drawn scrupulously .

Many parts are combined , work called capture of Breda is sized of about two meters square . In the bottom , in the foreground , the figure of the warrior of one person is drawn , as the go upward to become a distant view , human beings are depicted as pea .

Formation of the army is also accurately depicted , it will serve for the tactics of the time , as well as historical material .

In the most unexpected places , work depicting the martyrs in Nagasaki , of martyrdom , of twenty-three saint Japan . Incident of this martyrdom was the incident that had been well known in Europe at the time .

However, the Japanese are drawn to people like Turkey. Japanese are doing any facial expression, until either wearing any clothes, Caro apparently did not know indeed.

It was most impressive is, The Temptation of Saint Anthony. A number of painters have been drawn, the world fantastic, but the work of Caro, would say the masterpiece of one of the best among these.

The St. Anthony, he only drawn small in the lower right corner, the most of the screen, many monsters are drawn. There is also a monster, such as appearing in the picture of the boss, I also felt a tribute to our ancestors.

It was exhibition was able to taste more than enough, the charm of the prints.