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| - | '''Jan Luyken''' ([[April 16]] [[1649]], [[Amsterdam]] - [[April 5]] [[1712]], Amsterdam) was a [[The Dutch poet]], illustrator and [[engraving|engraver]]. | ||
| - | His name is also shown as Johannes Luiken. | + | # the [[intestines]] or [[gut]] |
| - | + | # a part or division of the [[intestines]], usually the [[large intestine]]. | |
| - | At his twenty-sixth, he had a religious experience that inspired him to write moralistic poetry. | + | |
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| - | He illustrated the 1685 edition of the ''[[Martyrs Mirror]]'' with 104 copper [[etching]]s. Thirty of these plates survive and are part of ''The Mirror of the Martyrs'' exhibit. | + | |
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| - | He also published [[Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades")]] in 1694, which contains numerous engravings, by Luiken and his son Caspar (Caspaares), of 17th century trades. | + | |
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| - | == Des Esseintes on Luyken == | + | |
| - | :He [ [[Des Esseintes]] ] possessed a whole series of studies by this artist in [[lugubrious]] fantasy and [[ferocious]] [[cruelty]]: his ''Religious Persecutions'', a collection of [[appalling]] plates displaying all the [[torture]]s which religious [[fanaticism]] has invented, revealing all the [[agonising]] varieties of human [[suffering]] - bodies roasted over braziers, heads [[scalp]]ed with swords, [[trepan]]ned with nails, [[lacerate]]d with saws, [[bowel]]s taken out of the belly and wound on to bobbins, finger-nails slowly removed with pincers, eyes put out, eyelids pinned back, limbs dislocated and carefully broken, bones laid bare and scraped for hours with knives. --J. K. Huysmans via ''[[À Rebours]]'', page 57 | + | |
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- a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
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