ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



tlie leafl appearance of knowledge as an engraver. But lope engaged with her Women at Embroidery •" « Dio 



looking beyond thefe defeds to the fwect charaftcrs of the genes bufied with mathematical Diagrami at the entrance 



heads, to the elegant turns of the figures, and to the beauty of his Tub ;" and a fmall folio of the " Adoration of the 



and limplicity of the compofition of thefe rude Htetches, Magi," ' in chiarofcuro. 



what is wanting in the excellency of the mechanical part Antonio de Trente was born at Trentin AD i i:o?i 



of the art, is abundantly fuppiied to the judicious eye, in He lludied under Parmcgiauo, though but iliree years oldcr 



the fire and anmiation of the maRer. The copies are al- than himfclf, and became a painter of fome merit, and an 



ways better than the originals, with refpeft to the regularity excellent engraver in chiarofcuro, which latter art he ia pro- 



of the workmanlhip ; but even the bell cf them are exceed- fumed to have learned from ITgo da Carpi. His llvle of 



ingly defective in llyle and fpirit, fo that they are eafily engraving is by no means elaborate, and his extremities are 



diftmgui(hcd upon comparifon. Good mipreffions of the often negleaed, yet his prints are valued by connoifTours 



originals are very rare ; fuch, I mean, as are not re-touched. Rcipefting the robbery of his mailer, of which Hubcr lias 



From the fou'nefs of the copper upon whicli he engraved, accufed him, though we have thought it right to mention 



and the little (Icill he had in managing the aquafortis, his the report, we fiiall not very llrcnuoudy inlill on tho fad 



etchings are feldom clear or perfeA in their appearance. Authors agree that the plates and blocks were reftored after 



though fome mdeed are greatly fuperior to others in this a time, and differ in the name of the robber ; under fuch 



refped ; and thofe perhaps he executed in the latter part circumilances it would furcly be unfair to brand with cyclo- 



of his life. pedian notoriety the memory of Antonio de Trente. 



«' It is alfo faid that he engraved many prints on wooden His moit remarkable prints are, " The Virgin Mary 



blocks in chiarofcuro j but it is much more likely, as embracing the Infant Chrirt," from Beccafumi ; anotluT 



Bafan juftly obferves, that he was only the defigner and " Virgin and Child," from Andrea del Sarto ; " The Tibur- 



djredlor of thefe works, and that they were executed by tinian Sybil, pointing out the Saviour to' the Emperor 



Ugo da Carpi, Andrea Andreani, and other mailers." Augullus ;" (which latter was printed in green ink,) after 



The alarms of war, much more the dillrefs and horrors Parmegiano ; a man holding a lyre ; a back view of a man 



ofa Cege, are deftruftivetothe purfuitsof anartift. When leaning againft a bank, with a'fernale head at fome httle 



Rome was taken by the Spaniards, Parmegiano retired to dillance ; " Circe receiving the Companions of Ulydcs," of 



Bologna, whither misfortune purfued him. Many of his de- the oftagon form ; " Pfyche fainted with divine Honours," 



figns, etchings, and cliiarofcnro blocks, \vere here ftolen of the fame oftagonal fliape ; all of folio dimenfions, and 



from him by an engraver, whom he retained in his fervice, after Parmegiano ; " The Martyrdom of St Peter and 



and whom Huber calls by the name of Antonio de Trente, St. Paul," a ftill larger print after the fame mafter, is par- 



and De Piles, Antonio Frontana, They were afterwards ticularly mentioned by Vafari, in his life of Marc Antonio, 



recovered, or recovered in part ; but whether by legal pro- Nicolas Vicentino, known under the name of Boldrini, 



cefs, or the remorfe of Antonio, has not been explained, an engraver on wood, was born at Vienna fome time about 



Poor Parmegiano was for a time almoil diftracled by the the year 15 lo. Of this ancient engraver there is very little 



event, which, with a debt due to the church, and other mif- known, but it is fnppofed he was a pupil of Titian, from 



fortunes, drove him from Bologna to Caftel Maggiore, whofe defigns he commonly worked. There is a large 



where he foon after died of a fever. --^^ — :-.i-- ir_ ,- ■ ,, , , _ . 



The moll important of the prints from the hand of this 

 great mafter, are, " Mofes and the Burning Bufh," a fmall 

 plate, and apparently one of his firfl attempts in etching ; 

 " Jofeph folicited by the Wife of Potiphar," and " Juduh 

 with the Head of Holofernes," both in fmall 410. ; an an- 

 tique facrifice ; a fet of thirteen fmall uprights, of Chrill 

 and the twelve apollles ; " The Virgin Mary receiving In- 

 fpiration from the Holy Spirit ;" " The Adoration of the 

 Shepherds," a fmall upright ; " The Marriage of St. Ca- 

 therine," in fmall 410.; "A Holy Family," where the 

 Virgin is feated, and the Saviour is lying in a cradle ; another 

 " Holy Family," where St. John is prefenting a baflcet of 

 flowers to the Infant Chrift, in folio ; another " Holy 

 Family," in larger folio, where a bilhop and a faint are 

 introduced ; a very rare print, done with the graver, marked 

 and of folio dimeniions, of which the 



upright print by him, repre'.enting Venus naked, fitting on 

 a bank with Cupid, and a fquirrel appears behind on the 

 branch of a tree; the figures, back-ground, &c. are exe- 

 cuted in a bold, free ftylc, chiefly with a fingle ftroke; but 

 there is fome crofs hatching in the deep fliadow.c. It ia 

 marked Titianus inv. Nicolas Baldrinus Vircentinus in- 

 ciabat, 1,66. The following are among his beft engrav- 

 ings, which are very rare : — A portrait of Jean Enron de 

 Schwarzenberg, f.irrounded with a border of warlike im- 

 plements, after Albert Durer, in folio ; " The Adoration 

 of the Kings," after Titian, marked with the cypher cf 

 Boldrini ;" another large print of •< St Jerome at Devotion 

 at the Foot of a Rock," in a landfcape ; " Saint Scbaftian 

 and St. Catherine," with four otherfaints, of a large fi/.c: both 

 this and the lall are from Titian ; a large print reprefenting 

 a mountainous landfcape, with animals, a female leadmg a 

 Franc. Parm. fecit," and of folio dimeniions, of which the cow, and a young man carrying a large tub ; anottier larce 

 fubjeft is alfo an " Holy Family;" "The Entombing of print of an old ape between two young ones, entwined w;Th 

 Chrift," a fmall upright folio, which Guido has copied of a fcrpcnt, intended as a fatire on the boaft of Baccio Baiidi- 

 the fame fize ; "The Refurreftion of Chrift," in 4to. ; nelli, that his Laocoon furpaffed the antique. This wood cut 

 A Shepherd leaning on his Crook ;" " A Mother inftrudl- has been attributed to Titian by fome authors, and to Bol- 



ing her four Daughters ;" a back figure of a man with a 

 woman feated by his fide ; all from his own compofitions. 



After Raphael, he has etched the celebrated cartoon of 

 " St. Peter and St. John healing the lame Man," in fmall 

 folio ; of which Strutt fays, that it is one of Parmegiano"s 

 fineft and moft determined etchings, adding, " we fee he 

 has mixed his own fweet manner with that of Raphael, in 

 the treatment of the heads, and it feems to me to lofe 

 nothing by the alteration." 



We conclude our lift of his etchings with thofe of " Pene- 

 VoL. .XIX. 



drini by others. 



To Antcnio Salamanca, who was born at Rom.e in 

 the year ijoo, liave been attributed a whole length portrait 

 of Bandinelli; "God creating the Animal World," after 

 Raphael, both in large folio, with fome other works, 

 which are marked with one or other of the three mono- 

 grams, which will be found in our fecond plate of thofe of 

 the Italian School ; yet Strutt doubts wbether he was the 

 author or only the pubhfticr of thefe engravings. 



Giovanni Giacomo del Caragho, or C.-".ra}ius, furnamcd 

 3 U Jacobu* 



