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Jacques Callot: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1592 • Nancy • France
Died March 24, 1635 (aged 43) • Nancy • France

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Jacques Callot: The Hangman's Tree
Two performers at a fair, from the series Balli di Sfessania; engraving by Jacques Callot, 1621. This series was an attempt to document not the commedia dell'arte, as was once thought, but rather a dance of the type generally known as the moresca (symbolizing the conflict between the Moors and the Christians) but known in Naples in its Maltese form as sfessania.
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