ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGR AVING. 



C'rofs," from tV.e fame ma(l?r, figned " Opus Livio Agrelli 

 loilivenfis, Ronii incidabat, Joan.. Bapt. de Cavalleriis," 

 in large folio. 



For an account of Paul Veroncfe, who etched fome plates 

 about this time, and is a dillinguiflied ornament of the Italian 

 I'chool, fee the article Caguahi. 



Cefar Veccliio was bora at Venice fomc time about the 

 year 1530, and died in the fame city. He was the younger 

 brother of the celebrated Titian, and probably the engraver 

 of thofe wood-cuts which are generally attributed to that great 

 artill. We liave by this mailer a fet of prints in oiiavo, etched 

 in a free fpirited ilyie, from the defigns of Titian, of the cof- 

 tume, or various dreffes, ancient and modern, of different 

 parts of the world: they were pubhlhed at Venice in the 

 year i 590, entitled " De gh Habiti antichi et moderni di 

 diverfe Parte del Mondo, Libri due fntti da Cefare Ve- 

 cellio." In the year 166+, another edition was publidied, 

 more complete than the preceding, where the title is more 

 fully explained, thus, '■ Raccolta di Figure delineate dal 

 gran Tiziano, e da Cefare Veceilio fuo Fratello, dehgente- 

 ment e intagliate." 



Jofepii Porta, otherwife called Salviati, dtUa Gi'afag- 

 rano, was a native of Callelnuovo Grafaguano, born in the 

 year 1535. He was the difciple of Francis Salviati, whole 

 name he alTumed. He fettled at Venice, where he painted, 

 both in oil and frefco, witli great fuccefs, and performed 

 feveral meritorious cmrravings on wood. M. Papillon fays, 

 that he has feen twelve prints by this mailer, executed on 

 wr.od, of which the fubjefts were " Tlie Prophets,'' and 

 "The Sybils," " Pfyche finding Cupid aflccp," and "A 

 Cjiemill in his I^aboratory," a print ten inches by fixteen. 

 He continui's : " But I alfo pofl'cfs a print bv this mailer, 

 much fuperior to the preceding, of " Jefus thrift on the 

 Grafs, accompanied by the Virgin, Mary Magdalen, and 

 St. John," at whofe feet is a little tablet, with the name of 

 Jofeph Salviati. The charac'ters are very admirably cx- 

 preiVed, and the excellence of the defign equals that of the 

 execution." Porta's engraving of the Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, a very fme compofition, in fmall folio, proves 

 tliat in this inftance Papillon is no cxaggerator. Andrea 

 Zucchi, and many other Venetian artills, have engraved from 

 the pictures of this mafter, who died at Rome in the year 



Julius Sanuto, or Sanutus, was born at Venice A. D. 

 1536, but is very little known. Among the fmall number 

 of plates executed by tliis artill are the following : " The 

 Birth of a monllrous Child," figned Jul. Sanutus. Venet. 

 fee. This print is executed with the graver in a coarfe 

 heavy ftyle, with fmgle flrokes, without any crofs hatch- 

 mg, and bears great refemblance to a wood-cut. " Venus 

 and Adonis," after Titian, from the gallery of the king of 

 Spain, marked Giul. Sanuto exc. 1559 ; " The Fable of 

 Apollo and Marfias," a very fmgular compofition, from 

 Corrcggio, engraved on three large plates ; on the middle 

 plate of which is iiitroduced the Parnafliis of Raphael. 



Of Dominico Vitus it is only known that he was a native 

 of Italy, l)orn fome time about the year IJ.;6, and that he 

 continuc-d to engrave at lealt till tlie year 1580. 



He was an ecclefialtic, of the order of Val-Ombreufe, a 

 monallery fituated in the Apennines, and was probably in- 

 ftrufted in engraving by Agoftino de Muiis, whofe flyle he 

 imitated, and not unfuccefsfully. He engraved feveral 

 plates after contemporary painters, and like'wife from the 

 antique. 



We have, by him, " St. Joachim holding a cenfer," from 

 a defign by Andrea del Sarto, dated ijSoj " St. Bartho- 



lomcvi-," infcribed "Dora. Vitus Ordinis Valifumhrofa ^fo- 

 iiacluis excidit, Romae, 1578;'' a fet of fmall plates of 

 " The Paffion of Jefus Chnft," furroundcd with borders of 

 birds, beads, and fifties ; feveral antique ftatues, marked 

 " Dom. Vitus fee. ;" " Jupiter and Califto," in 410. ; and 

 " A River God," from the antique, of the fame fize. 



Raphael Guidi was born at Florence in the year 1 5-40, 

 and, judging from his works, appears to have been inftrncied 

 in the fchool of Cornehus Cort, or Agoftino Carracci. He 

 worked entirely with the graver, which inilrument he har.dkd 

 with much facility. He drew correctly, and the extremi- 

 ties of his figures are very well expreffed. Though Guidi 

 cannot be faid to have equalled Carrache, yet liis prints 

 manifeft that he was a man of very fuperior talents. Tin; 

 following prints are by him, and will probably be foui-d 

 among his beft performances ; '• King 1) " 'i "1 "-'■■■' ■■•: tl.e 

 Harp," from Jofephine, in folio (the !,i ,en 



engraven by Eg. Van Pandercn) ; " T' ...ter 



Chriitopher Schwartz, in folio; " Ji'in i . . "i the 



Sepulchre," from F. Baroccio, dated 1598 ; '■ ..En^iio carry, 

 ing his Father from the Burning of Troy,' from the fame ; 

 " Jupiter grafping his Thunderbolts," from Pohdoro ; ar<d 

 " Vulcan" from the fame mailer, both in folio. In larger 

 folio, and engraved with much freedom after" Jofephine, is 

 "The Fall of Icarus." 



Bartolomio Paffarotti was born at Bologna in the year 

 1J40, and died in the fame city A.D. 1592. It is very 

 likely that he learned drawing in the fchool of Thadens 

 Zucchero. Bartolomio was the moft eminent of the luimerous 

 family of artifts of his name, and excelled both in hiiloricat 

 fubjeCls and portraits. Huber claims for him the honour of 

 having been the founder of the celebrated Academy at 

 Bologna, where the Carracci fo much dillinguiftied them- 

 felves. He was a painter of great m.erit, and Ph. Thomaf- 

 fin, C. Cort, Aug. Carracci, and many other artifts, have 

 engraved after his pictures. He likewife produced many 

 etchings from his own defigns, and from thofe of F. Sal- 

 viati, and P. Perugino, of which the following are beft 

 known, and probably pofTcf? moft merit. 



" The Virgin and Child, accompanied by St. John," from 

 his own defign, in large folio ; " The Vifitation of the Vir- 

 gin," a rich compofition, after F. Salviati ; figned Bart. 

 Pad'arotus fee. a very rare print, in large folio, and another 

 large folio print of " The Marriage of Jacob and Rachacl," 

 from P. Perugino. 



Marius Kartarus, or Mario Kartaro, was born in Italv 

 fome time about the year 1540, but the time and place of 

 his death are unknown, and the events of his life are fome- 

 what obfcure. Bafan fays that " Marius Kartarus was an 

 engraver, who flourifl^ed in Italy about the middle of the 

 fixtcenth century ; Rodolphus Fuft-li calls this engraver 

 Marius Cartari, who, in the year 157S, engraved ar Rome 

 the portraits of the twenty-four firft Roman emperors, from 

 Julius Caefar to Heliogabalus. And Strutt thinks " that 

 he was probably a German, though he refided at Rome, and 

 learnt t"he art of engraving in his own country ; he copied feve- 

 ral of the engravings of Albert Durer with fomc degree of 

 precifion : they are executed entirely with the graver ; but 

 his principal works are etchings in a'coar.'"e, incorred ftyle, 

 fniiflied with the graver. Some of them are vei-y large, and 

 in general from his own defigns." Kartarus common- 

 ly marked his prints with a monogram, which will be 

 found in our fecoiid plate of thofe of the Im/ian Engravers, 

 and never with his name at length. The following are among 

 his moft diftinguilhedprodudions : " The Adoration of the 

 Shepherds," in a very neat ftyle, executed with the graver 



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