biography
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Cousin, Jean
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known as Jean Cousin le Père (‘the Elder’)
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pronunciation:
[koozĩ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1490–c.1560)
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| biography:
| Engraver, glass-stainer, and painter, born in Sens, C France. He went to Paris in 1540 where he studied painting. He designed elegant stained-glass windows, tapestries, engravings, sculptures, and book-illustrations, and also wrote a theoretical treatise Traité de perspective (1560). He was probably responsible for two stained glass windows in Sens Cathedral, a picture of a nude woman (‘Eva Prima Pandora’) in the Louvre, and Vie de Saint-Mammès (1543). His son, Jean Cousin (the Younger), continued many aspects of his father's work. |
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