ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



530th m folio, and after Raphael ; " The Aflembly of the engrave on his own account, and to n;aik his prints with his 



Gods," engraved by Agollino and Marc of Ravenna ; at- own peculiar cypher. 



tached to which, by the fame artill, is " The Marriage of Mark died at Rome about the middle of the ifith century. 



Cupid and Pfychc," both after Raphael. From the fame Strutt fays of him that he " imitated the bolder Ryle of 



painter, are " Lcdacarcfll-d by the Swan," in 4to.; " The engraving which was adopted by his matter, with great ac- 



Fall of Phaeton," in folio ; and " Apollo and Daphne'' in curacy ; but when he attempted to follow him in his ncatcil 



quarto; the latter of which is by fome falfely attributed to manner, he was not equally fuccefsful. He handled the 



the graver of Marc Antonio. graver with more freedom than his fellow ftholar de Mufis, 



" The Difpute between the Mufes and Pierides," an who, however, furpaffed him in neatnefs and precifion. 



onymousplaje, in large foho^ attributed by Vafari to the Ravenna drew well, as his beft prints fufllciently teftify ; 



pencil of RofTo, and by the French to that of Perin del 

 \'aga : this plate was afterwards re-touched and republiflied 

 in 1553, by Eneas Vico ; " The Metamorphofe of Nep- 

 tune intoa Horfe," in 8vo., after Julio Romano, dated 1516; 

 " A Bacchanalian Triumph," in 410 , after Raphael, or, 

 according to Mariette, after Raphael del CoUe ; " The 

 Entrance of Orpheus into Inferno," a fmall engraving, 

 after Julio Romano, dated 152 J ; "The Infant Hercules 



though not with that purity of outline which dillinguifhes the 

 works ef his mailer ; neither are the extremities of his figures 

 marked witli equal corredtncfs or judgment. His works, 

 however, are jullly held in ellimatiou by the curious. 



The ufual mark adopted by this artift is a cypher, com- 

 pofed of an R and an S joined together, which has been the 

 occafion of feveral niiftakes, not only with refpcft to his 

 works, but with refpecl to himfelf ; and has led feveral 



deftroying the Serpents," in fmall folio, after the fame authors to fuppofe that there were two Ravennas, tli 



maftcr ; " The Death of Antxus," in fmall folio, after 

 Michael Angelo, wherein Earth is perfonified as an old 

 woman, dated 1533 ; " Hercules killing the Nemean Lion," 

 a fmall print after Raphael, dated 1528, and a frieze of con- 

 fiderable length, of which Mariette attributes the invention 



named Marco, and the other Silveftro ; and they have beeii 

 confunied in this opinion by the declaration of Vafari, who 

 tells us, that Marco da Ravignano, for fo he writes the 

 name, marked his plates with an M and an R, which, in 

 fome few inftances, he certainly did. I'hofe, who do not 



to Bandinelli, and of which the fubjeft is a female figure fuppofe there were two Ravennas, have imagined that thefe 



on Olympus, blowing a trumpet, in prefeilce of the aflem- two letters were defigned for Raphael Sanzio, and placed 



bled deities, upon the plate to denote that it was taken from a defign 



allegoric Inventions, &c. — " An old Man feated on a by that mailer. This opinion, however, is eafily confuted ; 



Bank, with a Cottage in the back Ground," one of the few for the fame mark is found on " The Slaughter of the In- 



plates wherein Agoilino has ftippled the flelh with the nocents," after Baccio Bandinelli, and of courfe cannot, by 



graver. Providence ; on a tablet held by two angels is in- any means, refer to Raphael. It certainly Ihould be read 



fcribed "Caufar. Cognitio :" this is a fmall foho, and after Ravfmia or Ravignano, fculf Jit. He fometimes marked hit 



Marc Antonio; " The Cumsen Sybil," after Raphael, in engravings with a fingle R without the S, and at others, 



4to., and dated 1516 ; " The Cemetery," in large folio, as will be found in our PlaU I. of the Monograms, &c. of 



after BandineUi. This is the print fometimes called " The the Italian School. 



Skeletons of Baccio," wherein Death is reprefented tearing Of the engravings of Ravignano, the following are thofe 



a book in prefence of various other ikeletons ; "The which are held in mod requell, beginning with the 

 Battle of Charles the Rafh," a fmall folio, dated 1518; Sacred Subjecls. — A fet of twelve, of the frieze propor- 



«« The Climbers," being part of Michael Angelo's Cartoon tions, from Bible hillory, after Raphael ; " The Slaughter 



of Pifa,in large folio ; " The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli," of the Innocents," a large folio plate, after Bandinel'i.° A 



alfo in large folio; "A Combat between Five Warriors," duplicate plate of the fame fubjeft, difierently cyphered, 



alfo faid to be from the celebrated Cartoon of Pifa, in 4to. ; and without the name of the painter ; " The Transfigura- 



"The Three Marys (veiled figures), on their Way to tion," marked with an R on the bole of a tree, under which 



the Sepulchre," in folio, an anonymous defign, but attri- a difciple is feated; "The Laft Supper," marked R, and 



bated by Huber to Michael Angelo ; another from Michael from the fame original as that by Marc Antonio ; and 



Angelo's Cartoon of Pifa, in 4to., a very rare print ; " A " The Virgin of the long Thigh," varied from that by 



Shepherd careifing a Shepherdefs," in foho, after Raphael ; Marc Antonio, by the introduftion of a fmall keg, all in 



•' An aged Philofopher meafuring a Diilc," after Dominic folio, and after Raphael ; " The Holy Family," after 



Campagnola. A very rare print in 410., after Raphael, of Polidore, in foho. A fet of thirteen, of the Saviour and 



\ Female refting her Right Hand on a Vafe ;' "A Dance Apoflles, in 4to., after Raphael, and diftinguifliable from 



-cf Fawns and Bacchantes," of the frieze form, dated 1518, 

 after an antique bas relief, but by fome afcribed to Prima- 

 ticcio. A fet of fixteen plates of bronze and marble vafes, 

 from the antique, in fmaU folio, infcribed " Sic Romse An- 

 tiqui Scv.lptores," &c. Another fet of thirty-fix, in 4to., 

 of grotcfque fubjefts, after Raphael, fome of which only 

 are marked with the cypher of Agoftino ; the reft are by 

 other pupils of Marc Antonio. A fet of forty-eight buftos, 

 in 4^0. " The Arch of Conftantine," in a circle, dated 

 i;i7. 



Marco Ravignano, commonly known by the name of 

 Marc of Ravenna, was born at Ravenna in the year 1496. 

 He ftudied at Rome, and became the pupil of Marc An- 

 tonio, and co-difciple and friend of Agollino of Venice. 



Raphael lived, ;. e. till the year 1520, our 



thofe of Marc Antonio, by the cypher of Ravenna ; " The 

 Viftor)' of St. Michael," in fmall folio, after Raphael; 

 "The Cemetery, or Memorial of Death," in folio, after 

 Bandinelh, but differing fo widely from that by Agollino 

 de Mufis, both in particulars and the general compofition, 

 as to warrant an opinion that it is engraved from another 

 defign. 



Profane SuiJcBs.-" The Rape of Helen," and « Alex- 

 ander depofiting the Works of Homer in the Coffer of Da- 

 rius," both in folio, and after Raphael. A pair in foho, of 

 " The Interview between Scipio and Hannibal," and 

 " Scipio's Victory over the latter," after Julio Romano. 

 A fmall anonymous print of an armed Jupiter, the defign of 

 which is attributed to Salviati ; " Venus quitting Juno and 

 Ceres," a fmall folio, from the fable of Pfyche ; "The 



As long 

 two engravers worked together, after which each began to Triumph of Galatea," in large folio, marked with an R 



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