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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: 16th-century engravers, 17th-century engravers, 18th-century engravers, 19th-century engravers, Baroque engravers, Prix de Rome for engraving, Renaissance engravers, Melchior Lorck, Theodor de Bry, Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, Martino Rota, Manz Corporation, Sadeler family, Jacob Christoph Le Blon, Philip Galle, Hendrik Goltzius, Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Noel Rooke, Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Cornelis Cort, Drevet family, Jan Saenredam, Y tokutaishi Akiyama, Jacob Matham, Antoine Cardon, Geoffroy Gournet, Chris Pig, Giovanni Valesio, Albert Decaris, Henri-Auguste Patey, Francis Place, Lucien Georges Bazor, Thomas Sulman, Graciela Rodo Boulanger, Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding, Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal, Phrygillus, Robert Cromek, Charles Turner, Jules-Clement Chaplain, Peter Vanderbank, Erik Lindberg, Natale Bonifacio, Crisostomo Martinez, Sofia Ahlbom, Pierre Gandon, Gerard Audran, Robert Adams, John Cochran, Thomas Fielding, William Elliott, John Slezer, Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, Joseph Bergler, Giovanni Odazzi, Charles Degeorge, Francesco Caccianiga, Orazio Bruni, John Eyre, Eugene Giraud, Henry Wehrmann, Max Leognany, William Peake, Paolo Bianchi, Cosmo Armstrong, Mattia Cadorin, Mario Labacco, Sebastiano Bianchi, Giovanni Francesco Cassioni, Serafino Brizzi, George Malakov, Francis Allen, William Barnard. Excerpt: Melchior Lorck (or: Lorichs or: Lorich or: Lorch) (1526/27 - after 1583 in Copenhagen) was a renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs of Turkey in the 16th century, to this day a unique source. He was also the first Danish artist of whom a substantial biography is reconstructable and a substantial body of artworks is attributable. Melchior Lorck was born in either 1526 or 1527 as son of ...