# Florentine Fête [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CALLOT, Jacques]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Etching ## Commentary Callot achieved his greatest success in engraving those public festivities with which the Grand Dukes sometimes amused the people of Florence; he found the brilliant idiom for rendering the action of those taking part. There are hundreds of people in this huge plate, and Callot displays great skill in forcing them into a coherent pattern. Callot's technique in etching is highly personal. He found the current soft varnish inadequate to the delicacy which he sought and replaced it by the hard varnish employed by lute-makers, a habit in which etchers have followed him to the present day. ## Related artworks - [Interlude in the Medici Theater]() - [Landscape]() - [Scene from the Grandes Misères de la Guerre]() - [Siege of La Rochelle]() - [Temptation of St Anthony]() - [The Agony in the Garden]() - [The Battle of Avigliana]() - [The Holy Family at Table]() - [The Two Pantaloons]() - [View of the Seine in Paris]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()