grand
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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grand great, pre-eminent, principal XV; imposing, sublime XVIII. — F.
grand large, tall, sublime, or its source L.
grandis full-grown, abundant, tall, powerful, sublime. The use of F.
grand to denote the second degree removed in ascent of relationship was adopted,
grandpère,
grand' mère being repr. by
grandfather,
grandmother XVI, earlier †
graunt- XV; it was extended (XVI) to the corr. degree of descent in
grandchild,
grandson,
granddaughter, where F. has
petit little.
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Philippe de Champaigne & the image of the artist: a self-portrait of Philippe de Champaigne in the Fogg Museum of Art has long been dismissed as a copy of the engraving of the artist's famous lost Self Portrait of 1688. Lorenzo Pericolo argues that it is in fact an autograph work of high quality that reveals how Champaigne drew on renaissance art in creating a new approach to portraiture.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...1668, which had been engraved by Gerard Edelinck in 1676 (3) (Fig. 1) and celebrated...the painting itself, but from Edelinck's engraving, which shows the...much younger than he is shown in Edelinck's engraving. Unless one is inclined...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/2/1994; 700+ words
; ...singer, 1891; Max Ernst, Surrealist painter and sculptor, 1891; Serge Lifar, choreographer, 1905. Deaths: Gerard Edelinck, engraver, 1707; Honore-Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, politician and writer, 1791; Richard Cobden...
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Edelinck, Gerard
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Edelinck, Gerard (1640–1707). Flemish-born engraver who settled in Paris in 1666 and became a French citizen in 1675. He was the...
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Champaigne, Philippe de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...might well have been his self-portrait of 1668, which is lost, but survives in a copy by his nephew and pupil Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–81) in the Louvre and in a superb engraving (1676) by Gerard Edelinck .
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line engraving
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...portrait engraving, in which the greatest names were those of Claude Mellan , Robert Nanteuil , and the Flemish-born Gerard Edelinck . During the 18th century line engraving began to decline in importance even as a reproductive process, especially...
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