ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



fet of thirty-two, of " The Loves of Cupid and Pfyche," XXVI.;" a profile of pope Paul TIL in a leathern capy 

 after Raphael, each accompanied by eight Italian verfes. the fame, wearing the papal crown, dated MDXXXVI.;- 

 Pottk Inventions, &c. — " Le Stre^ozzo," the defign of all in folio. Ferdinand king of the Romans, in 4to. 

 which is by fome attributed to Rapliael, and by others to Francis I., of France, dated 1536 ; a profile of the empe- 

 Michael Angelo. Sometimes it is called, " Raphael's ror Soliman, dated 15 _5J ; Barbarofia holding a turban ; all- 

 Dream," and probably with great truth, for though it dif- in folio. 



fers from the reft of his works, yet it differs not fo much, Subjeas from Sacred Hijlory. — "The Creation," a folio 



but that it may be the produftion of his mind, and it pof- plate, engraved partly by Agoftino and partly by Marc of 



fcfies all the romantic wilJnefs of a nofturnal chimera. A Ravenna, and infcribed " Exc. Deus enim Omnia," &c. 



monftrous carcafs is converted into a fort of triumphal car, " Abraham offering up Ifaac ;" " The Benediclion of 



in which is feated a forcerefs ; it is drawn by naked men, Ifaac," dated 1522; the fame fubjeft, with fome trifling 



and a youth mounted on a goat is blowing a horn. It is in variations, dated 1524; " The Palfage of the Red Sea," 



very large folio, and in the later imprelTions the initials of engraved in conjunttion with Mark of Ravenna ; " The 



Agolliiio Vencziano are added to the mark of Marc Anto- Fall of Manna," a plate which prefumptively was begun by 



nio. " II Morbetto,'' ©r The Plague, another large folio after Marc Antonio, and finillied by Veneziano, all after Raphael 



Raphael, good impreffions of which are extremely rare, and of folio dimenfions. " Samfun bound by the Philif- 



Three figures from Michael Angelo's Cartoon of Pifa, dated tines,'' a circular print, nine inches in dian:ieter, is fuppofed: 



1910, and known among coUeftors by the title of " The to be from a compofition by Veneziano himfelf. 



Chmbers." " II Pito," or The Triumph of Lave, an " The Queen of Sheba vifiting Solomon," after Raphael, 



allegory, by fome fuppofed to be after Andrea Mantegna. has been attributed to the graver of Marc Antonio, but 



" The Emperor Trajan crowned by Viftory," from a bas- is by Agoftino and Marc in conjunction,- and one of their 



relief on the arch of Conftantine ; " The Chace of a Lion," early performances. It is of the folio fize. 

 from another antique bas-relief; "The Caifolette," a grand A fet of the four evangelifts, in 410. is after Julio Ro- 

 B acchanaliau proceffion, of the frieze form, nineteen inches mano. '•' The Annunciation'' is after Raphael, and en- 

 in length ; " An Offering to Priapus ;'' the ftatues of graven by the friends and fellow ftudents Agoftino and 

 Apollo and Cleopatra ; abas-relief of" The Three Graces," Marc ; " The Nativity" is after Julio Romano ;and both are 

 and a dance of nine children, all after Raphael. of folio dimenfions. 



Agoftino de Miifis, furnamed Veneziano, from the place " St. John the Baptift in the Defert," of anonymous in- 

 of his nativity, and called in England Auguftin the Vcne- vention, dated 1532 ; perhaps defigned by the engraver him. 

 tian, was born at Venice fome time about the year 1490. feif. " The Mafiacre of the Innocents," a rare engraving. 

 He travelled to Rome for improvement, and became one of is copied from the celebrated print of Marc Antonio; 

 the moft celebrated of the numerous difciples of Marc Anto- " The Laft Supper," in folio, after Albert Durer ; the fame 

 Jiio, with whom he fometimes worked in conjunftion. From fubjccl in fmaller folio, attributed to Raphael ; " Chrill 

 the cuxumftance of his earlieft known engraving being dated bearing the Crofs,'' in folio, after Raphael, dated 1519 ; 

 in the year 1509, Strutt fuppofes that he began to ftudy " The dead Chrift," after Andrea del Sarto, a folio print, 

 Inider Marc Antonio, whilft that diftinguifhedmafter yet re- with which, as mentioned in our biography, the painter was 

 fided at Venice. Marc of Ravenna was his fellow pupil ; fo diffatisiied, as to refufe Veneziano the liberty of engrav- 

 and Vafari clalfes them among the very beft of the Italian ing from his works during his own lifetime. Another 

 ftudents who followed the art of engraving. dead Chrift, in fmall quarto, after Albert Durer, a very 



When the city of Rome was taken and facked by the rare print; " The Archangel Michael,'' in folio, after 

 Spaniards in the year I jay, Agoftino retired to Florence, Raphael; " The Holy Family," in fmall folio, marked only 

 and applied for employ to Andrea del Sarto, who was then with the initials of our artift, and probably from his own 

 in high repute, but del Sarto, diftatisfied with the dead compofition ; another " Holy Family," after Francia, dated 

 Chrift which he had already engraved after his defign, re- 1516; "The Holy Virgin and Child, iltting on a Pe- 

 fufed to permit him to engrave any more of his pictures, deftal," fix friars and a nun are prefent, and above are two 

 Agoftino afterwards returned to Rome, where he followed angels, holding a tablet with an Ecce Homo, in folio ; 

 his profeftional purfuits with great fuccefs, and where he " The Crucifixion," with fix figures of faints and angels re- 

 died fome time about the year 1540. ceiviiig the blood of the Saviour, dated 1528, and alfo in 



He generally marked his prints with the initials A. V , folio ; " St. Jerome," after Raphael, in quarto ; " St. Mar- 

 which were fometimes infcribed on a tablet. He imitated garet kneeling, and putting a Demon of the Serpent Form 

 the ftyle of his mafter with great attention, and, as far as re- to Flight, by means of the Mirror of Truth," an early per- 

 gards manual execution, with confiderablc fuccefs: fometimes, formance of Agoftino, engraved before he frequented the 

 indeed, he in this refpeit excelled Marc Antonio ; but in fchool of MarcAntpnio. 



point of taftc, and in the purity and correftiiefs of his out- Subjeasfrom Greek Mythology and Hi/lory. — " Iphigenia en 

 line, he fell far fhort of that diftinguiflied artift. Tanride," an anonymous plate, in quarto ; "Diogenes lying 



Good impreffions of the works of Veneziano are now be- on his Cloak near the Margin of a River," a fmall engraving 

 come extremely fcarce, and a compleat fet is hardly to be ob- after Baccio Bandinelli ; " "The Loves of Alexander and Rox- 

 tflined ; among them will be found a few, wherein he has ex- ana," an anonymous plate, in folio, the defign of which Vafari 

 preffed the flelh entirely by means of ftippling, in a manner attributes to Raphael ; " Tarquin offering Violence to Lu- 

 ■which, being imitated by Boulanger, grew by degrees into cretia," in 4to. after the fame mafter; a very fine copy of 

 what is now termed the chalk manner of engraving. The Marc Antonio's print of Lucretia, in quarto, with Latin 

 following lift is beheved to contain the defcription or titles of verfes beneath. " Camillus redeeming the Tribute impofed 

 his beft performances. on Rome by the Gauls," and a naked figure of Cleopatra, 



Portraits of Cliarles V. after Titian, fuperfcribed both in fmall folio, and after Bandinelli ; a fmall figiue of 

 with fixteen Italian verfes; another of the fame emperor, Mars, after Raphael ; " Vulcan prefenting Venus with Ar- 

 infcribed " Pjogenei dirum qtuntus fjc, &c. , J£x. faa rows,"' dated 1530, and " Venus feated on a Dolphin," 



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