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3 unusual facts about Jacques Courtois


Guglielmo Capodoro

He trained under Antonio Calza and mainly painted battle paintings in the style of Jacques Courtois

Jacques Courtois

Here he took a house and after a while entered upon his own characteristic style of art, that of battle-painting, in which he has been accounted to excel all other old masters; his merits were cordially recognized by the celebrated Cerquozzi, named Michelangelo delle Battaglie.

In Florence he entered the Society of Jesus, taking the habit in Rome in 1655; it was calumniously rumoured that he adopted this course in order to escape punishment for having poisoned his wife.



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