ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



Raphsel in the Vatican, fmall plates, lengthways, engraved 

 conjuintly with Lanfranc. 



OAavi'iis Leoiii was born at Rome in I5»2, and, under 

 the in'.lruftion of his father, he acquired fome dejjree of ex- 

 cellence as a painter. As an engraver, he is believed to 

 have been felf-taiight ; for, exceijtiiig the hints which he 

 might have borrowed from Boiilanger and Agoftino of 

 Ve'iiice, he imitated none of his prcdecefTors. There are a 

 fet of twenty portraits, chiefly of diilinguifhed artills, from 

 his hand, engraved iu a lingular and ftrikmg manner. The 

 hair and draperies are executed with llrokes ; the flelh is 

 done in round dots ; and the dark parts of the eyes and (liarp 

 (hadows being afiilled with ftrokes, which are managed in a 

 ikilful manner, produce a pleafitig effecl. Thefe heads are 

 finely drawn, and fome of them finithed in a much higher 

 ftyle than is ufu;'.! with painters, when they take up the 

 point or the graver. The following are among the por- 

 traits : Eques Ottavi Leonus, Lodovico Leonus, Johannes 

 Fraccifcus Barbtiri, Marcellus Provenzalis, Eques Chrif- 

 topuer Ronchalis de Pomcranciis, Eques Jofcph Cefar Ar- 

 pinas, Antonius Tempeita, Thomas Salinus, Don An- 

 tonius Barberinus, Pierre Jacopo Martello, a poet, wiiofe 

 portrait is adorned with paftoral allufions. 



Remigio Cantagallina was born at Florence in t j8:, and 

 died in the fame city A.D. 1624. He for fome time fre- 

 quented the fchool of the Caraccii, but afterwards learned 

 (with his two brothers Antonio and Giovanna Francilco) 

 engraving of Julio Parigi. Remigio drew extremely well 

 with a pen and ink, and Ibmetimes, with great good icnfe, 

 imitated this mode of art in his etchings. 



His etchings are chiefly after his own defigns, though he 

 fometimcs engraved after other mafters ; and it is no fmall 

 addition to the fame of this artiil, that C=*llot and Delia 

 Bella were hi^ pupils. The cypher which he commonly 

 ufed is copied in PL-ile III. of the monograms of the Ita'ian 

 School. We ihall fpecify the following of his works: 

 «• The AfTumption of the Virgin, wherein (he is crowned 

 by two .Angels," in 4to., after Callot ; four finali land- 

 fcapes, dated 1609, from Rofli ; a fet of fix landfcspes ; 

 another let of twelve, in oftagons, with the cypher of the 

 artift ; another fet of fix ; another fet of nine and twenty 

 prints, the fceiies of an opera ; and the reprefentation of the 

 fete given on the Arno, at the mniriage of the prince of 

 Tufcrmy, from the deiigns of Julio Parigi, in folio, 1593. 



We now approach two artills, both of them difciples of 

 CantagJilina, of a very dilTez-ent kind from any of their 

 predeceflbrs, of more enterpriling fpirit and more original 

 powers, if not of more vigorous intelleft, than the fchools 

 of Italy have yet prcfented to our notice : but having al- 

 ready treated of the biography and profefiional meiits of 

 Callot and Delia Bella, (fee the articles Bella and Cal- 

 lot,) before our claffification of the engravers into the fe- 

 veral fchools of Europe was determined on, we can do little 

 more in this place than add more copious liils of their very 

 eilimable engravings. 



The number of C pilot's engravings, confidering the fliort 

 period of his life, is not lefs wonderful than the various 

 multitudes of fi^rures by which fome of them are peopled. 

 The bell catalosrue with v^liich we are acquainted is con- 

 tained in the third volume of the Baron Heinnekiii's Dic- 

 tionary, from which we have extracted the principal, in 

 conformity with our plan. 



Subj:as from Holy fFnt, and iIk Monlttfb Lfgends « The 



Paffage of the Red Sea," in 4to. of which con .oilTeurs are 

 defirous of pofTefiing each of the two different dates in winch 

 the plate was printed. «' Elias and the widow of Sart pta ;" 

 «Ecce Ancilla Domini," or » The Annunciation/ ' after 



Matteo Rofelli, in 410. This is a rare print, and is dirtin- 

 guiflied from another of the fame fubjtdt, culled " The 

 little Annunciation," as well by its being without the en- 

 graver's name, as by its Latin iiifcription " St. John 

 preaching in the Dtfort," 410. " The Parable cf the 

 Hufbandu'.an fowing Seed." with a L.itin infcription, 410. 

 This platL is folely the work of the graver. " Ecce Homo," 

 after Stiadan, folio, engraven at the age of eighteen, 

 " Chrilt bearing the Crofs," a fmall oval, engraven on a 

 filver plate. " The Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary, 

 St. John, and Mary Magdalen, embracing the Crofs," a 

 fmall and rare print. " The Entombing ot CiiriK," after 

 Ventura Salimbini, the work of the graver alone. " Our 

 Saviour with the Difciples at Emaus." " The Virgin 

 Mary with the infant Chrill," an oval. Another, wherein 

 the Virgin is embracing our Saviour, 4'.o. Another of 

 the Virgin, after Andrea del S.irto, wherein is introduced 

 St. John and Elizabeth, 410. Another, after P. Farinati, 

 with the infants Chrid and St. John, folio. " Our Lady, 

 with three Ears of Corn," 410. " A Holy Family," in- 

 fcribcd "Minor fervi ct majoris, &c." 4to. Another Holy- 

 Family, after Sadeler, in 410. entirely performed with the 

 graver. " The Adumption with the Cherubim," 8vo. 

 There is another of this fubjec^, called •■ The little Af- 

 fumption," in an oval. •• Benedicite," another Holy Fa- 

 mily, 410. " The Triumph of the Virgin," folio, dedi- 

 cated to Charles IV. duke of Lorraine, and Bar. folio ; " St, 

 John the Evangelill in the Ifle of Pa'mos," in 410. nearly 

 fquare ; " St. Francis :" of this fubjeft there are two eii- 

 gravings, rne known by the name of " The little St. Francis 

 of the Tulip;" and the other termed " The Tree of St. 

 Francis," at the foot of which are feveral monks at prayers, 

 410, nearly fqnarc ; " The Temptation of St. Anthony," 

 tl-.e firll pliite of this fubjeft, (whicli is a large folio,) is de- 

 dicated to Moiif Phlippeaux de la Vri! iere, beneath it are 

 Latin verfes with his coat of arms, and it is dated in 16^5. 



As Fufeli has painted three pidurcs from the fame fairy 

 fcene in Sh.ikfpeare's Midfummer Night's Dream, fo Callot, 

 to (hew that his imagination was far from being exhaiilled on 

 the fubiect of the temptation of St. Anthony,, has engraved 

 a fti'l larger plate from this celebrated legend, which is very 

 confiderably varied from that of uhich we have fpoken ; and, 

 tliough not' the bell, the fecond is by much the fcarcell print 

 of the two ; for the plate, having been materially damaged 

 by accidental contacl with fome acid, a good imprcClon, be- 

 fore the accident, is now rarely to be mot with. " The 

 Martyrdom of St. Lawrence," a fmall oval; " Ti;c Mar- 

 tyrdom of St. Sebaltiaii :" this is a large and grand crm- 

 p'ofiticn, in form of a frieze. " St Nicholas preaching in 

 a Wood;" "The Miracle of St. Manfuette :" this is re- 

 ported to be the earhe;! of Callot's etchings, it is in folio, 

 and il;e (hadows are exprefied by broad and coarfe hatching?, 

 and aimoll, if not quite, every line in it is re-entered with 

 the graver. St. Manfuette was a bifhop of Tours, who is 

 here rcprefented aii relloring to life the fon of king Leucon:?, 

 wlio had fallen into a river in reaching for his tennis ball. 

 " The twenty-three Martyrs of Japan," in 8vo. ; " The 

 Infant Prieil, or carrying the Holl," a fmall plate, for which 

 Callot himfclf is faid 10 have entertained fo great partiality, 

 that he occafionally wore it, as fome of the fon ii^n orders 

 cf nobility are worn, fufpended from a button hole cf his 

 waiitcoat. The proofs vhich were taken before the plate 

 was perforated to admit the ribbon or ftring are rare, and 

 are clieemed valuable among connoiiTeurs. " A Nun kntci- 

 ii.g before a Crucifix," in 410. : tliis piece is known by li^c 

 na'me of " Santa Terefa," but it appears from the infcriplioii 

 iliat it is the portrait of Marie Vidtoire, the foundrefs of the 



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