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fities to dcbaucliery nipped all thefc fair promifes in the bud. 

 He died in an hofpi'al at Rome, A.D. 1662, aged only 2S 

 years. 



Francefchini etdied witli ability fomc few prints from the 

 compofitions of his uncle Annibal, among which are the 

 following. He ufiially marked his work with the mono- 

 gram, which will h; found in our P/«.V II. of tlie Italian 

 Maftfrs : — 'The Madonna and Child feated on a Cloud ;" 

 " St. Charles Boromius kneeling before a T:ible, contem- 

 plating a heavenly Light ;" two plates of " Angels tejch-- 

 ing the LelTon of Mortality,'' of which our Ert il himfelf was 

 fo heedlefs ; a fet of four plates of i'luftrious women of 

 antiquity: n mcly, " Semiramis,'" " Lucretia,'' " Artc- 

 milia,'' and "Portia" Tliele latter arc after Lodovico 

 Caracci, and are very rare, and all his prints are of fmall 

 dinienlions. 



Of that dillinguifhed engraver Cherubino Alberti, who 

 was living at the period now under our review, we have al- 

 ready detailed the biography, and d'.'f.-anled on the leading 

 traits of his excellence, under the article Alberti Che- 

 KUBIS'O. His monogram will be found in o-ir Plaie II. 

 ©f thofe of the Italian School ; and v.e are now enabli-d to 

 render our fcL-A lift of his performances foinewhat more 

 copious, by the addition of the f )llowing : — the Portraits 

 of Pope Gregory XIII. in an ovul, with acceffory orna- 

 ments ; Pope Urban VII. companion to the above ; Henry 

 IV. of France, alfo in an oval, with accompaniments ; and 

 Pietro Ange'o Bargco ; all of folio dinienlions, and from 

 pi&U'-es by Cherubino himfelf. 



Hijlorical Suhjecls from his Ofjn Cmr.pojilions : — "Judith, 

 with the Head of Holofernes, and a Sword,'' in folio ; 

 " The Nativity," a ijrand compofition, dedicated to Pope 

 Clement XII. infcribed " En Deus Omnipotens,'' &c. both 

 in folio, and marked with his cypher ;" "The Flight into 

 Egypt," where the afs is led by an angel, accompanied by 

 St. Jofeph and Elizabeth, in large folio ; another foiio print 

 of " The Virgin and Child with St. Jofeph," figned with 

 Cherubino's cypher ; " The Body of our Saviour, carried 

 through the Clouds by two Angels," infcribed "Mignum 

 pietatis opus," S:c. in folio ; " The Virgin and Clikl in the 

 Clouds, furrounded by Cherubinis' Heads, and two Angels 

 llrewing Flowers," entitled " Regina CtEli," in folio ; an- 

 other folio plate, of " St. Catherine of Sienna ftigmatized, 

 and fupported by two Angels,'' 1574, marked with the 

 artill's cypher; " St. Chrilliana and St. Francis ftigmatized, 

 accompanied by two Angels,'' 1^99; " St. Charles in the 

 Clouds furrounded by Angels, proltrating himfelf before the 

 Virgin and Child," 1612, all of folio dimenfions ; fix fub- 

 jefts for ceilings, of children, after the piclures by Alberti, 

 painted at Tivoli ; fix genii in the air, dedicated to Car- 

 dinal Vifconti ; the firll is infcribed " Ex pifturis, quas 

 Cherubinus Albertus in ejus Villa Tufculana pinxit, has 

 ipfemet incidit, 1607," in large quarto. 



Hijlorical Subjeas from various other Majlers : — Standing 

 figure of " Sufanna leaning againft a Pedeftal," on which 

 is written, S. Sufanna Vir. & Mart.; lower down, Alexander 

 Albertus inv. dedicated 'o Cardinal Ruftici, in large folio ; 

 " Our Saviour on the Crofs," to the left is the Virgin, to 

 the right St. John with extended arms, from Michael An- 

 gelo, in folio ; a large folio print of " St. Jerome fitting 

 meditating on a Crol.s, " from the fame mailer, engraved at 

 Rome, AiD. 157 J ; another in folio, of " St. Andrew bear- 

 ing a Crofs,'' Pi'graved in 1580, and taken from the Laft 

 Judgment of Michael Angelo ; two other t'-gures, in folio, 

 from the Lalt Judgment, one infcribed " Nuda Veritas," 

 the oth^r, " Petit ad .iEtliera :'' thefe are very fine engravings, 

 and dated 1591 ; the figure of Charon, accompanied by 



two others, and fomc heads, from the fame La!l Judgment, 

 engraved A.D. I57|, in folio ; " Prometheus torn by the 

 Vulture, ' painted tor an angle of ihe Siftine Chapel, in 

 folio, engraved A.D. 1580; a group of four fifrures, 

 namely, " Tlie Body of Our Saviour ;'' " The Virgin ;" 

 " Nicodennis ;'' and " Mary Magdalen ;" in folio. The 

 original fculpture by Michael Angelo, from which this en- 

 graving was made, was taken to Florence, and placed be- 

 hind the altar of the cathedral, with the following iiiftrip- 

 tion : " Poftremum Michaelis Bonarotx opus, quamvis ab 

 artifice ob vitium marmoris negleftum, eximiiim tamen artis 

 canon. CofmusIII. Magnus Dux Etruri;E Romx jam 

 Kreftum hie. P. I. anno MDCCXXII." Three prints rc- 

 prcfenting "The Creation of Adam and Eve ;" " Adam 

 and Eve chafed out of Paradife ;"' and " Adam and Eve 

 fubjccled to Labour,'' Romi, Polidorus de Caravag. invent.; 

 a large frieze, of " The Death of the Children of Niobe," 

 in five plates ; another frieze, of " The Rape of the Sabines," 

 witii a Latin infcription ; " The Triumpli of Camillus," in 

 the antique tafte ; "Pluto,'' a figure holding a flambeau; 

 " Fortune,'' with her left foot on a wheel ; " The Prefenla- 

 tion in tlie Temple,'' from Raphael: it was publiihed after 

 the death of Alberti, in folio ; " The Refurredion of 

 Chrift,' a grand compofition, with an angel fitting before 

 the door of the fepulchre, dated 1628, in folio; " Jefus 

 on the Mount of Olives," where an angel prefents limv 

 with a chalice, dated IJ74, and publiflied in 162S, in folio, 

 from Roffo ; this, as well as the laft, was publiihed after 

 the death of our engraver. "A Holy Family," in large 

 folio, after Raphael, engraved in 1582 ; a foHo prim of 

 "Jnjjlter carediiig Ganymede," from the Vatican, by Ra- 

 phael ; two more from the Vatican, on the fame plate, ol 

 "The three Graces;" and "Venus quitting Juno and 

 Ceres," 1582; " The Adoration of the Magi," a grand 

 compofition, after Rodo, dated IJ74; "The Traisfigura- 

 tion," m.arked with Alberti's monogram, from the iame 

 maftcr, IJ74; "St. Stephen ftoned," an architeftiual de- 

 fign for a grand tabernacle, on two plates, Rome I)75> in 

 folio, all from Roffo ; " Tiie Baptlfm of our Saviour," 

 after Andrea del Sarto ; " Tile Miracle of St. Philip Beiiiz- 

 zio," where thofe who had defpifed his exhortations wire 

 ftruck dead with lightning, from a piclure by Andrea del 

 Sarto, IJ82 ; a folio print of "The Guardian Angel con- 

 ducting the youthful Tobias," from Pellegrino Tihaldi, 

 1575; " Our' Saviour in the Garden of Olives, v.ith hiR 

 three Difciples," engraved by Perin del Vaga, and Ch. Al- 

 berti, in folio ; " The Nativity, or the Adoration of the 

 Shepherds ;" over head is a glory of angels, infcribed 

 " Glia in Eccis," in large folio, on two plates, from Thi- 

 dcus Zucchero ; another " Holy Family," where the Vir- 

 gin holds the Infant on a cradle, from the fame mallor ; 

 " Tiie Flagellation," from a pidlure by T. Zucciiero, in 

 the church of the Cosfolation at Rome, in folio, dated 

 I J75 ; " The Convcrfion of St. Paui," a grand folio print, 

 from the fame maftcr, dated 157^; ; " The Body of our Sa- 

 viour in thcArms of God the Father, furrounded by Angels, 

 with the Inftrumcnts of the Paifion," from the fame ; "The 

 Aifumption of the Virgin,'' cnj;raved in IJ77, from 'i'. 

 Zucchero, and dedicated to pope Theani, in large folio ; 

 another Aifumption, a large print from T. Zucchero, en. 

 graved in 157 I ; " The Virgin crowned in Heaven," from 

 the fame mailer, engraved A.D. 1572. 



We have already treated of the biography and merits of 

 Lodovico Cardi, furnamed Civoli, both as an engraver and 

 painter. (See the article C.vnni Loniivic*.) Hi; mono, 

 gram will be found in our Plate II. of thofe of the Italian 

 School. 



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