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See also:EDELINCK, See also:GERARD (1649-1707) , Flemish See also:copper-See also:plate engraver, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp. The rudiments of the See also:art, which he was to carry to a higher See also:pitch of excellence than it had previously reached, he acquired in his native See also:town under the engraver Cornelisz See also:Galle. But he was not See also:long in reaching the limits of his See also:master's attainments; and then he went to See also:Paris to improve himself under the teaching of De Poilly. This master likewise had soon done all he could to help him onwards, and Edelinck ultimately took the first See also:rank among See also:line engravers. His excellence was generally acknowledged; and having become known to See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. he was appointed, on the recommendation of Le Brun, teacher at the See also:academy established at the Gobelins for the training of workers in See also:tapestry. He was also entrusted with the See also:execution of several important See also:works. In 1677 he was admitted member of the Paris Academy of See also:Painting and See also:Sculpture. The See also:work of this See also:great engraver constitutes an See also:epoch in the art. His prints number more than four See also:hundred.
Edelinck stands above and apart from his predecessors and contemporaries in that he excelled, not in some one respect, but in all respects,—that while one engraver attained excellence in correct See also:form, and another in rendering See also:light and shade, and others in giving See also:colour to their prints and the texture of surfaces, he, as supreme master of the burin, possessed and displayed all these See also:separate qualities, in so See also:complete a See also:harmony that the See also:eye is not attracted by any one of them in particular, but rests in the satisfying whole. Edelinck was the first to break through the See also:custom of making prints square, and to execute them in the See also:lozenge shape. Among his most famous works are a " See also:Holy See also:Family," after See also:Raphael; a " Penitent Magdalene," after See also:Charles le Brun; " See also:Alexander at the See also:Tent of See also:Darius," after Le Brun; a " Combat of Four Knights," after Leonardo da See also:Vinci; " See also:Christ surrounded with Angels "; " St Louis praying "; and " St Charles See also:Borromeo before a crucifix,"—the last three after Le Brun. Edelinck was especially See also:good as an engraver of portraits, and executed prints of many of the most eminent persons of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. Among these are those of Le Brun, See also:Rigaud, Philippe de See also:Champagne (which the engraver thought his best), Santeuil, La See also:Fontaine, See also:Colbert, See also:John See also:Dryden, See also:Descartes, &c. He died at Paris in 1707. His younger See also:brother John, and his son See also:Nicholas, were also engravers, but did not attain to his excellence.
End of Article: EDELINCK, GERARD (1649-1707)
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