ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



only ; " Our Saviour crowned with Thorns," a large up- 

 right plate, nlfo executed with the graver ; *' Diana and En- 

 dyniion," a large plate lengthways ; " Chrill praying in tlic 

 Garden of Olives," from Albert Durer, marked on a tablet 

 1567, Uoms, in folio ; " St. Jeroni featcd in a Chamber," 

 from the celebrated print of the fame fubjedl by I'Jiirer. 

 " The Defcent of Chrift into Hell," from Andrea Manteg- 

 na, etched in his rough ftyle, in folio ; " The Lail Judg- 

 ment," in large folio, from the famous pidure by Michael 

 Angelo, in which print the oval at the top, that in the ori- 

 ginal picture contains the pai iter's portrait, is left blank. 



Andrea Androani, called Mantuano, was born at Mantua 

 in the ye.ir 1,40, and died at Rome in 1^)2:;. He learnt the 

 elements of his art in the place of his nativitv, but went after- 

 wards to lludy at Rome. Andref.ni engraved on wood only, 

 in the ftyle diftiiigiiifhed by the appellation of cliiarofeuro ; 

 which he performed by the help of two, and fometimes three 

 blocks, but never more. Among his own countrymen, he 

 had Ugo da Carpi, and Antonio da Trento for models, 

 whom he feeins to have followed very clofely in the early part 

 of his time ; but at length he carried the mechanical part of 

 the art to a far greater degree of perfection. His great 

 merit, as an artift, is acknowledged by all who are converfant 

 in prints ; his drawing is executed in a very mafterly Ityle, 

 and with great fpirit ; the heads of his figures, though (light, 

 arc characterilHc and exprefiive ; and he has difplayed great 

 judgment in the management of the various tints. 



The number of prints by this mafter is very confiderable, 

 for befides thofe which he performed himfelf, he procured a 

 great many engravings by other artills, retouched them when 

 occafion required, and, adding his cvplier, fold them as his 

 own productions. This difingenuous artifice, altogether im- 

 worthv of him, renders it very difilcult to dillinguini his 

 works iirecifely ; for, after all, it is molt likely that many 

 prints are attributed to him, in the engraving of which he 

 had no concern. He commonly marked his prints with one 

 of the cyphers which will be found in our fecond plate of 

 Italitm Monograms. The Abbe de Marolles midakenly calls 

 this artift Andreoffi ; others have millaken him for Andrea 

 Mantegna, who lived nearly a hundred years before him, and 

 others again for Albert Altdorfer, on account of the limi- 

 larity of their monograms. We have endeavoured to ex- 

 clude his adopted engravings from the following lill; of his 

 works, and to feleft the beft of his own. A portrait of 

 Albert Durer ; " The Pavement of Sienna," after a draw- 

 ing bv Francefco Vanni, from Domenico Beccafunii Sanele, 

 con filling of eight fubjects, faid to be the moll rare of all 

 Andreani's engravings ; " The Deluge," from Titian, a 

 very large piece, on three plates : " The Army of Pliaraoh 

 pafllng the Red Sea," from the fame ; " The Adoration of 

 the Magi,'' from Parmegiano, in fmall folio ; " The Purifi- 

 cation of the Virgin," from Salviati, in folio, dated 1608 ; 

 " The Virgin and Cliild, worfiiipped by a Bifhop,' 'half figures, 



to whom he attributes many prints in cLiir-obfcure). A,a- 

 otlicr " Entombing of Chrill," from Raphael da Fteggio, a 

 fmall upright plate, half figures; " St. Peter pieaeliing," 

 marked with the name of Pohdore, and the cyjjhcr of /\n- 

 drani, 1608; " St. Sebailian, with a Billiop,' and ihe Vir- 

 gin and Child, in Rays of Glory," marked l-'redericus Ba- 

 rutius Urbinas, in large folio ; an emblematical print, repre- 

 fenting the Chriftian after his fpiritual warfare in tiie prcfent 

 life, received as viclorious into heaven, and crowned by Chrift ; 

 it is figned Baptilla Franco de Venife, and bears the cypher 

 of Andreani, in large folio ; a perfonifieation of human 

 life, reprefented by a female figure aftailod by the pallions, 

 figned Jac. Ligotus, inv. et Andreani 15S J, Fircn/^, in large 

 folio : there are different imprcflions of this plate, both 

 with and without the chiarofcuro. «' The Raj^e of the: 

 Sabines," from a group by the fcnlptor Govan. Bologna; 

 three feveral views, dated IJS4; anoiher print of the faiue 

 fubjecl, from a bas-relief of the fame i>ia;ler, on three blocks, 

 dated I J85 ; " The Triumph ot .Inlius Ca^far," from An- 

 drea Mantegna, the original of which is at Hampton Court, 

 it is cut on ten blocks of wood, including the title, and 

 dated 159S ; a large print of a fcenein a play, intitled " Or- 

 tenfio," reprefented by the academicians, called Intronati, 

 in the prefence of the grand duke Cofmo I. at Florence, 

 from the defign either of Marco Ricci, or Bart. Neroni. 



Jacques, or Giacopo Palma, ufually called the younger, 

 in contradiftinftion to his uncle Giacomo, who was a very 

 eminent hiftorical painter, was a native of Venice, born. 

 A.D. 1544, and died in the fame city in the year 1628. 

 Giacopo became the difciple of Tintoretto, whofe ftyle he 

 followed during the earlier part of his life, but he after- 

 wards ftudied with great care and attention the works of 

 Titian and other great mailers, to complete his tafte. Palma 

 has etched a number of free fpiriled plates in a flight llyle, 

 to which he frequently iigned his name at length, and fome- 

 times ufed the monogram of a palm-branch, croffin<' dia- 

 gonally the letter P, which will be found in our Piute IT: 

 of Italian Monograms. 



The following are by him, and are his moft eftccmed 

 prints : — " .Samlon and Dahlah," after Jac. Franco ; and 

 " Judith and Holofernes,'' both middling-fizcd plates length- 

 ways, marked with his name ; " The Nativity," in fmall 

 4to. ; " A Holy Family, worlhipped by St. .lerome and St. 

 Francis," halt length ; " St. John in the Defert," in 410. ; 

 « Tlie beheading of St. John," the fame ftj.e ; " St. 

 Jerome in Conference with a Pope," in 4to. very rare ; 

 " Pallas fitting on a Trophy, holding a little figure of Vic- 

 tory in her Hand," in large 410. ; "Paying Tribute to 

 Cxfar," the fame; "The Woman taken in Adultery," 

 the fame ; " Chrift anfwering to the Phavifees, when they 

 difputed his Authority," the lame ; "Chrift ajjpearing to 

 St. Thomas," half length figures; " Two Men in Tar- 

 tarus," the fanie fi/.e ; " An Ectlefiaftic, and a naked Fi- 

 from Al. Caflblani, with the artill's cypher, and the words gnre, with two Boys underneath," with the monogram of 



Andrea Mantuano, Pittore Sanefe, IJ91, in large fol 

 " The Virgin, St. John, and Ir.fant Jefus, accompanied by a 

 Saint," from Giac Ijgozzio, in folio. Another folio print 

 of " Our Saviour h-'aling the Lepers," from Parmegiano ; 

 " Jefus Chrill healing the Paralytic," from Franceflb de 

 Nanto da Sahandia, in folio ; " Chrift departing from Pilate, 

 who is waftiing his Hands," one of his moil finifhed pro;- 

 duclions, on two blocks engraved from a bas-relief of Govan. 

 Bclogna, in large folio ; " Chrill bearing the Crofs," after 

 Al. Caflblani. with the name of d' Andreani in Sienna, 1591, 

 in folio ; " The Entombing of Chrift," a large folio prmt, 



the artift ; m 4to. 



Dominico Pellegrino Tibaldi, who excelled in the three- 

 arts of painting, engraving, and architecture, was born at 

 Bologna xV.D. 1546. He was the fon and pupil of Pel- 

 legrino, known by the name of Tibaldi da Bologna, after 

 whofe compofitions he etched feveral fpirited plates. The 

 following Ihort lill will probably be found to contain the 

 beft of Dominico's works on copper: "The Virgin of the 

 Rofe," after a piclnre by Parmegiano, in the gallery of 

 JDrefden, in folio ; "A View of a Fountain at Bologna," 

 from John de Bologna, figned Domm. Tibaldi. 157c, in 



dated 15QI, from Giuf. Seolari Vicentino, pittore excellente large folio ; "The Trinity,' a grand compofition, after 

 (Papillone mentions a Jofeph Scolarij an engraver on wood, Horace Samncliini, in large folio j and a priiii reprefeiiting 



