ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



firens, dolphins, and other marine chimera ; " The Marriage 

 ofCana in Galilee," a middling-fized plate lengthways, from 

 Tintoretto ; four fabjefts from Le Pordonone, " Venus and 

 Cupid ;" " Diana at the Chace ;" " The God Pan ;" and 

 "A Man holding a Vafe ;" " The Paftimes of Love," a fet of 

 twenty fmall upright plates, from his own deligns ; entitled 

 " Scherzi d'Amor exprefii da Odoardu Fialetti, pittore in 

 Venezia ;" a book with ftudies for drawing, in folio, pub- 

 lidied at Venice A.D. 1608 : a book of the coftumes of 

 different nations ; and another of antique friezes, after Poli- 

 Oo Ziancalei. 



Guido Reni, the celebrated hillorical painter, was born at 

 Bologna in the year 1575, and died in the fame city in 1642. 

 He learned the elements of drawing of Denis Calavcart, 

 whom he quitted, to ftudy in the Bolognefe academy. But 

 of his great talents as a painter we fliall treat under the 

 article Rexi, and have onlv to notice him here as an 



There are a great number of prints by his hand, which 

 are etched in a bold, free ilylc. His heads are beautiful 

 and exprefiive, and the other extremities are drawn with all 

 that talle and judgment which might be expefted from fo 

 great a inafter ; though they are very fliglitlv e:tecutcd, 

 their intrinfic beauty, and the vigorous but difcriminaiing 

 intention of the srtiil, which is every where apparent to the 

 eye of tafte, have damped a high value on them, which they 

 juftly deferve. Simon Cantarini, called II Pefarcfe, copied 

 the ftyle of etching of Guido with fo much precifion, as 

 fometimes to deceive the eye of the unwary connoiffeur ; 

 but in general, the extremities of the figures in the plates 

 of Cantarini, are not marked with that admirable tafte fo 

 difcernible in the works of Guide. 



He fometimes marked his plates with his name, or mono- 

 gram, which is among thofe of the Italian engravers in our 

 Plalell. The following are among the produftions of his 

 hand, the whole number of wliich, according to Mariette, 

 amoimt to two hundred and eighty-nine. 



From hh own Compan'wni. — A buft of pope Paul V. in 

 oval, very rare ; the profile of a man ; another, with a long 

 beard ; •' The Virgin with the Infant Jefus, with St. Jofeph 

 in the back ground," in 4to. one of the tineft engravings of 

 Guido ; " The Virgin with the Infant Jefus afleep at her 

 Breaft ;" a fuhjeft which Guido has treated in three dif- 

 ferent ways; another "Virgin and Child, with a Book ;" 

 the only plate which Guido has executed entirely with the 

 graver ; three other holy families, reprefentcd in different 

 ways ; " St. Chrillopher, with the Infant Jefus on his 

 Shoulders, going over the Sea;" " St. Jerome praying 

 before a Crucifix, in his Cave," in 410. ; "Cupid contem- 

 plating a female Figure, who holds a Compafs and Tablet ;" 

 " Two Children carrying a third on their Shoulders," 

 ia 4to. 



The following are after other matters : " A Glory of 

 Angels,'' after Lucas Cambifi, in folio. This print is 

 reckoned Guide's mafter-piece. " The Entombing ef 

 Chrili," a middling-fized upright plate, from Parmegiano, 

 a very fine print ; " The Infant Chrift fitting on his Mo- 

 ther*."; Lap, laying his Hand on the Tabernacle, with St. 

 Jofeph," from Aug. Caracci, falfely attributed to Annibal, 

 in 4to. ; " The Virgin Mary fuckling the Infant Jefns," 

 from Caracci, in 4:0 , executed on a blank ground ; " The 

 Charity of St Roch," dated 1610, in large folio. Thefe 

 are the principal engravings of Guiuo, of the whole of 

 which Adam Bartfch of the library at Vienna has given 

 a very good catalogue. 



For an account of Francifco Brizzio, the pupil and af- 

 fiflant of Agollino Caracci, fee the article Bkizzio; and 



for the biography of Horace Borg'.ani, who lived alfo at 

 this period, fee Borgiani. The monogram ufually affixed 

 by the latter to his engravings will be found in Plate 111. of 

 thofe of the Italian School. 



Raphael Scaminofi, or Schiaminoffi, was born at Borg 

 S. Sepolcro in the year 15S0. He v.as the difciple of Ra- 

 phael dall Colle. He performed fome few engravings oa 

 wood ; and there are a confiderable number of etchings by 

 him, — Florent le Compte fays a himdred and thirty, — which 

 are executed in a bold dark ilyle. There is a coarfcnefs ia 

 them, which gives them a difagrceable appeai-flnce at firll 

 fight ; but on examination, they will be found to pofTef* 

 great merit. His knowledge of drawing feems to have been 

 very extenfive ; and the characters of his heads arc ftriking 

 and appropriate. His monogram is copied in Plate HI. of 

 thofe of the Italian School. 



The following are fome of the bed productions of his 

 needle ; " The Virgin and Child," a middling-fized up- 

 right, infcribed " Raphael Schianiinofuus, Piclor ex Civitate 

 Burgi Sanai incidebat, A.lLi. 16.3;" " St. Francjis 

 preaciiing in the Defert," from his own compofition ; a fet 

 of the twelve ApolUes; a fet of fourteen fmall plates^ 

 lengthways, intitled " Myfleria Rof;trii beats Marige Vir- 

 ginis," publifiied at Rome, 1609, all from his ov.-n defigns ; 

 the fifteen Myfteries of the Rolary, in folio ; " The Mar- 

 tyrdom of St. Stephen," a middhng-fized plate, length- 

 ways, from Lucas Cangiagi ; " Mary Magdaku carried 

 away by Angels," after the fame, in folio; " The Vifita- 

 tion of the Virgin," from Banoccio, in foho ; a middling, 

 fizcd plate, lengthways, from the fame mafter, of " A Re- 

 pofo ;" " The Holy Virgin in the Clouds, with St. Cecilia, 

 and another Saint," from P. Veronefe, in folio ; " The 

 Virgin Mary on a Globe, fui rounded by Angels," from 

 B. Caftelli, in folio ; a fet of twelve wood-cuts of the 

 twelve Apoftles ; another fet of portraits of the firll twelve 

 Caefars, from Tempella, alfo engraved on wood. 



Jean Lanfranc. This diflinguilhed artill wa» born at 

 Parma A.D. 1 581, and died at Rome in 1647. He firll 

 ftudied under Auguftino Caracci ; but on the death of this 

 mailer, went to Rome to complete his ftudies under his 

 brother Annibal, where he was knighted by pope Ur- 

 ban VIII. 



His merit as a painter will be treated of under the article 

 Laxfrakc. We (hall fpeak of him here only as an en- 

 graver. 



The mode of art which he praftifed was etching, and his 

 etchings, though hafty productions, pofFefs merit. He 

 commonly marked his plates with his name, or initials, but 

 not combined in a cypher; and his moft etlecmed prints are 

 mentioned in the following fhort lift : " The Triumph of a 

 Roman Emperor," in large folio ; " An Emperor ha- 

 ranguing his Soldiers," the fame ; the Bible of Raphael, 

 from pitlures in tlie Vatican, engraved in conjunction with 

 Sifto Badolocchio, (of whom we Ihall next proceed to 

 fpeak,) and dedicated to Annib. Caracci, 1607, in 4to. 



Sifto Badolocchio was of the family of Rofa, born at 

 Parma in the year 1581, and died at Ro.me in 1647. He 

 was the contemporary and fellou-ftudent of Lanfranc. 

 There are fome pidturefque little etchings by him, in which 

 we dilcover correclnefs of detign, and facility of handling 

 his tool. He marked his prints, of which thofe that foU 

 low are held in moft efteem, Sifto B. " Tne Statue of the 

 Laocoon," from the antique, in large folio ; " The 

 Apoftles and the .Angels, with the Chandeliers of the Cu- 

 pola of Parma," from Correggio, lix plates in folio ; " A 

 Holy Family, with St. John," a fmall upright plate of 

 half figures only ; Raphael's Bible, from the pictures of 



Raphael 



