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in tm Siftine chapel, hy the fame mailer ; " St. Joacliim and 

 St. Ann prcfenting Mary their Daugliter to the High 

 Priclt," after Parmepriano ; " Chriit nieetin«r St. Peter at 

 the Gates of Rome," after Rapliail ; " The Virgin and 

 Cliild," after Parniegiano ; " St. Cecilia," after Raphael ; 

 «' St. George," after Jii'.io Romano;" «' Tiie Emperor 

 Augiiftus, and the Sybil," after Parmcgiano, all in fmall 

 folio. In 4to. a fct of twenty-nine prints, from " The 

 L,ife and Pafiion of Jefus ChriR ;" and in Svo. a fet of 

 thirteen, from " The Life of the Holy Virgin." 



Profane Suhjeas. — " Achilles dragging the Corfo of 

 Hettor at his Chariot Wheels ;" after Primaticcio ; " The 

 taking of Troy," after the fame painter, a large folio, en- 

 graved on two plates ; " The Difperfion of the Fleet of 

 Eneas," after an anonymous, bat very indifferent defigii ; 

 «' Alexander and Bucephalus," in folio, from a compofuion 

 by Bonafoni ; " Cimon nourifhed by his Daughter," of the 

 frieze form, after Polidore ; " A Combat of Cavalry," being 

 the firft idea of Raphael for his battle of Attila ; " Scipio 

 wounded and retiring from the Combat,'' from a defign by 

 Bonafoni ; " The myllerious Saturn with his Three Sons," 

 after Julio Romano. A fet of twenty-two fmall engravings, 

 defigned by Bonafoni, of the loves, difdains, and jealoufies 

 of Juno ; " The Rape of Europa," after Raphael, in large 

 folio; "Mars and Venus," in folio, after Primaticcio; 

 "Vulcan difcovering the Amours of Mars and Venus," in 

 4to., of anonymous invention ; " Venus attired by the 

 Graces," in 410., after Raphael ; " The Birth of Adonis ;" 

 «' The Triumph of Cupid and Pfyche ; " and " Phcebus in 

 liis Car, attended by the Hours, wirh Time walking on 

 Crutches before them, and a Man and Woman waking from 

 Sleep," are all in fmall folio, and from compofitions by the 

 engraver himfelf ; " The DetlruClion of the Children of 

 Niobe," after Perino del Vaga, dated 1541 ; "The Fall of 

 Phaeton," in large 410., after M. Angelo, and a group of 

 three females, after the fame mailer, in folio~ 



From yinliqm Sailpl'.ire and Architedure, iffc. — Small buflos 

 of Jupiter, Juno, Latona, Bellona, and Minerva, five plates ; 

 "Hercules and Dejanira ;" '.' A Satyr and Nymph ; " The 

 youthful Olympus holding a Flute ;" " The Flight of 

 Medea," a bas-relief ; a ditto reprefenting " A Female and 

 Two Children feated ;' "The Loves of the Centaurs," 

 ■with grotefque foliage, all in 410. ; " The Temple of Ju- 

 piter and that of Neptune," both in folio ; and a confider- 

 ab!e number of book-plates, the fubjeds of many of which 

 are from the amours of the heathen deities. 



Jean Baptilla Franco, was born at Venice in 149S, and 

 died in th.e fame city, A.D. 1561. He learnt the principles 

 of defign in his native country ; but travelled to Rome to 

 perfeft himfelf by lludying the works of Michael Angelo. 

 According to Vafari, lie made a drawing after the fa::ious 

 Lail Judgment of that mafler, which paffed in his time for 

 a chef-d'oeuvre. Franco had an excellent tafte in defign, 

 and perfeft knoxvledge of anatomy. He excelled greatly 

 in the eorreftnefs of his contours, and the learned manner 

 in which he indicated the play of the mufcles. But as a 

 painter he was deficient : he knew very little of compoiition ; 

 or colouring, his pictures were therefore without harmony, 

 and hard. He felt their imperfeftions, and quitting paint- 

 ing, applied himfelf to drawing and engraving. Of whom 

 he learnt the art of engraving we are ignorant : it has been 

 faid he was of the fchool of Marc Antonio ; but the me- 

 chanical part of his engraving bears more refemblance to that 

 of Julius Bonafoni. He ufed the graver, and probably 

 that inftruinent alone, notwithttanding that many of his 

 prints appear as if done with tlie point. His talk was free, 

 and he v.orked ia a grand. ftyle ;" his figures were generally 



well proportioned, and his attitudes various and well con. 

 trailed ; his heads were often fmall, but always well de- 

 figned and charaileridic ; and tha other extremities were 

 rendered with the hand of a mailer. 



Franco generally marked his prints B. F. V. F. that is 

 to fay, Baptilla Franco Venetus Fecit ; and iiis bell en- 

 gravings arc as follow ; — " Abraham receiving Melchi- 

 fedec ;" " The Sacrifice of Abraham ;" and '• Mofes 

 ftriking the Rock;" all in fmall folio. "The Ifraelites 

 receiving Manni in the Defert ;" in large folio. " The 

 captive Kings brought before Solomon ;" ditto. " The 

 Adoration of the Shepherds ;" " The Virgin fitting at the 

 Foot of a Rock, carcffing the Infant Jefus, and in the 

 back ground the httle St. John ;" "St. John the Baptill 

 lying on the Earth ;" all in fmall folio. " St. Jerome hold- 

 ing a Death's Head ;" a large folio print. " Jefus Dif- 

 puting in the Temple with the Doctors of the I^aw ;" 

 «' The Difciples laying the Body of ChriH in the Tomb ;" 

 large folio. " Simon the Magician, praclifing his Impoftures 

 before the Apoftles ;" " A Cvclop in his Forge, with Cupid 

 at his Side ;" " Hercules bending his Bow againft the Cen- 

 taur NefTus ;" " Two Leopards, two Lions, a Wild Goat, 

 and a Griffin,'' from the antique ; "The Donation to tlie 

 Roman Church, by the Emperor Conftantine," after Ra- 

 phael ; " A Bacchanal," a grand compofition, from Juhu 

 Romano ; " Triumph of Bacchus," a grand compofition, 

 all in large folio ; " The Deluge,'' in fmall folio. 



Jacques Franco was born at Venice fome time about the 

 year 1560 ; and probably of the fame family as Bap- 

 tifta. His talle in engraving bore much refemblance to that 

 of Auguftin Carrache, of whom he was the contemporary. 

 He was a good defigner, and marked his heads and other 

 extremities very well : among the number of his produc- 

 tions, the following are the moft efleemed : — Part of the 

 4to. engravings for the edition of Taffra's Jerufalem, which 

 was publifhcd at Genoa in 1590, after the defigns of Ber- 

 nardo Caftelli ; the reft are done by Augullino Carrache ; 

 a collodion of portraits of great men, publilhed in 1626, 

 dated 1 596 ; " The Crucifixion," a fmall piece, marked Gia- 

 como Francho fee. ; " St. Jerome," ditto ; " Hercules be- 

 tween Vice and Virtue," from an antique basreliet; be- 

 fides many other plates after Baptifta Franco. 



Nicholas Beatrice, Beatrici, or Beatrizet, was a native of 

 Thionville in Lorrain, but iludied engraving in Italy, and 

 chiefly at Rome. He was born fome time about the com- 

 mencement of the fixtcenth century, and continued prac- 

 tifing his art at Rome till the year 1562, about which time 

 he probably died. Whether he became the difciple of 

 Marc Antonio, or of Agoilino of Venice, is not certainly 

 known : Strutt thinks he tludied under the former. A fc- 

 dulous contemplation and imitation of Marc Antonio's ex- 

 cellent print of " Neptune calming the Tempell," after Ra- 

 phael, certainly contributed to the formation of what litt'e 

 he poflefled that might be called (lyle in his art. Yet it is 

 much mere the merits of Michael --^ngelo, Raphael, and the 

 other great mailers after whom he engraved, than his own, 

 which makes his prints defirable, for he neither drew accu- 

 rately, nor had attained any confiderable powers in handling 

 his graver ; and his knowledge of chiarofcuro was but \xiy 

 fuperficial. 



The opinion which was held by many colleclors, that 

 Beatrice was the autlkor of the engravings which are marked 

 with a fmall die, infcribed with the letter B, feems at length 

 to be juilly abandoned. They are the performances of a 

 fuperior arti'.t, and perhaps of iiartholomew Beham. T\v 

 marks wiiich do belong to him will be found in our P/ati I . 

 of the monograms of the Italian School 0/ Entra\crs. 



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