CORT, CORNELIS Dutch engraver, was born at Horn in Holland and studied engraving under Hieronymus Cockx of Antwerp. About 1565 he went to Venice, where he executed for Titian the well-known copperplates of St. Jerome in the Desert, the Magdalen, Prometheus, Diana and Actaeon, and Diana and Calisto. From Venice he proceeded to Bologna and Rome, where he produced engravings from all the great masters of the time. At Rome he founded the school in which, as Bartsch tells us, the simple line of Marcantonio was modified by a brilliant touch of the burin, afterwards imitated and per fected by Agostino Caracci in Italy and Nicolas de Bruyn in the Netherlands. Bef ore visiting Italy, Cort had been content to copy Michael Coxcie, F. Floris, Heemskerk, G. Mostaert, Bartholomaus Spranger, and Stradan. In Italy he gave circulation to the works of Raphael, Titian, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Baroccio, Giulio Clovio, Muziano, and the Zuccari. Cort is said to have engraved upwards of 151 plates. In Italy he was known as Cornelio Fiammingo.