ITALIAN SCHOOL OF F.NGRAVING. 



grind fiibjcAs of battles, i. A naval combat before the iOe 

 of Re ; 2. Tlie dcfcent of the Eiiglidi in the ifle of Re ; 

 ^. The defeat and capture of general Lambay, with a plan 

 -of the battle : thcfe three plates were drawn and engraved 

 by Delia Bella, for the bi^ok of Valdor, entitled '< friom- 

 phes de Lonis le Jufte ;" twelve prints of Moors, Hun- 

 garians, Afiatics, and Africans, on liorfeback, in circ'es, 

 with very fine backgrounds, in 410. ; a fet of fixteen fmall 

 fquare fubjeifts, reprefenting warriors, hunters, (illiers, and 

 pealants, &c. very rare, and attributed by fijn.e to Callot ; 

 another fet of eighteen, intitled " Raccoila di rari caprieci, 

 nuove invenzioni di CarteUi et Ornamenti, pofTi in luce dal 

 Sign. Stefano Delia Bella," of ditfcrent fizes ; another fet of 

 twenty-eight, intitled " Vues d'edifieeset d'endroits publics, 

 mife au jour par Ifrael Siivc!lre," in folio ; more than half 

 of thcfe views in France and I taly are engraved by Delia 

 Bella ; a fet of twenty-two, intitled " Divers grifFonenicim 

 et cpreuves a I'eau force, faites par Sief. Delia Bella," of 

 different fizes : this fet has often been reprinted and en- 

 larged, and the gcod imprefiions are now become very 

 fcarce ; a fet of five of Death preying upon the human 

 (pecies of all ages, with fine backgrounds ; and orie entitled 

 " La fixie.T.e mort," a melancholy fubjeft, bcg.m by Delia 

 Bella, under his unfortunate malady, and fiiiifhed by his 

 pupil Galiftrucci. 



Antonio Francifco Lucini was alfo of Florence, and 

 bors in ihe fame )-ear with his countryman Delia BelU, 

 from the iludy of whofe works, and thofc of Callot, he ap- 

 pears to have formed his ilyle. His plates are marked 

 with one or other of the monograms which will be found 

 in our Pto HI. 



His principal works are a fet of fixteen vci-y rare prints 

 of the battles and afTanlts of the Turks diM-iiig the fiege 

 of Malta, from the piftures by Maltia Perez de Alefio, and 

 a fete on the Arno, of foho dimeufions, after Delia Bella, 

 dated 1634. 



Francelco Cozza has been already noticed as an hiftorical 

 painter in frefco. (See Cozza.) His prints confill of 

 fpirited etchings, in ^vhich the manual part is executed with 

 more neatnefs than has often been attained by painters. In 

 " St. Peter's Contrition," he has flievvn much good draw- 

 ing, though the print is flight. The tnher works we (liall 

 mention from hi^ hand are, " A penitent Magdalen," and 

 " A Roman Charity ;'' they are all from his own cem- 

 pofitions, and of folio dimeufions. 



Csefar Baffano, or Baflanus, was bom at Milan in the 

 year 1584. Under whom he Ib.idied has not been afcer- 

 tained. He worked entirely with the graver, and his 

 ftyle bears .confiderable refemblance to that of Cornelius 

 Cort. 



The moll confiderable work in which he was engaged, 

 and which he executed in conjunttion with Falcini and 

 Ciamberlanus, is a fet of fixteen plates, entit ed " II Santo 

 Senato de Giefa," a very rare work, which both Hein- 

 nekin and Strutt have omitted to mention. It confills of 

 heads of the Virgin Mary, Jefus Chrift, and the ApolHes, 

 feleded and engraved from pictures of the very lirll cele- 

 brity. 



The other known engravings of Baffanus are, a portrait 

 of Gafpar Afellius ; an architeftural Fror.tifpiece for ?. 

 work by Francis Piccolini, in folio; and " The Nativity," 

 of the lame dimeufions. 



His coadjutor Ciamberlano, or Ciamberlanus, was ori- 

 ginally a do6l«r of laws, but quitted the ftudy of jurifpru- 

 dence for that of engraving. The cypher which he affixed 

 to his prints will be found in P/ate III. of the monograms of 

 the /inlijn SJioo! 0/ Engraven ; iind WE have already men- 



tioned the leading events of his life under the article Ciam- 



BEItLANO. 



The principal engravings by this artift are " A dead St. 

 Jerome, lying on a Stone," after Raphael ; a fet of ten 

 p'ates, after different mafters, in Svo , conlilling of devo- 

 tional fubjefls ; "Angels holding tlie Inftruments of the 

 Crucifixion, Pafuon, &c. ;" another fet of fourteen, in 

 fmall folio, after Raphael, of " Jefus Chrift and the 

 Apoftles ;" " Jefus Chrift on the Mount of Olives, com- 

 forted by an Angel," from Al. Cafolani, in folio; « Jefus 

 Chrift appearing to Mary Mandalen in the Garden," from 

 BaiToccio, in large folio ; " Chrift appearing to St. Tlie- 

 refia with his Crofs," i6jj, in foho; two fubjefts of 

 Tl.efes, dated 1628, in large folio. 



Giovanni Francelco Barbicri. — Guercino da Cento is the 

 name by which this juftly celebrated painter is moft com- 

 moniy known ; for an account of w liofe great merits as a 

 pniiiter, fee the article BAnniEiu Giovanni Fkancisco. 

 As an engraver, he has left but few memorials behind him ; 

 but thofe are executed with jireat freedom and fpirit, in a 

 manner much refembling thofe admirable drawings of his 

 with a pen, which are held in fuch higli eftimation : " St. 

 Anthony of Padua;" " St. Peter in Grief," both half 

 len:rths, infcribed "Joan F. Barbicri f. Id.," in folio; 

 " St. John," the fame ; " St. Jerome before the Crucifix ;" 

 a portrait of a man with a hat on, and a curled beard ; par. 

 trait of a female with curled hair ; and a buft of a man in an 

 eaftern coil«nie, all of folio dimeufions ; are probably all the 

 prints that Guercino ever produced. 



Luciano Borzoni was born at Genoa in the year IJQO, 

 and died in the fame city in 1645. He learned the elements 

 of art of his uncle Phihppe Bertolotto, and Caefar Corte. 

 His pictures pofTefs much merit, are wtil coloured, and 

 carefully executed. He painted with the fame fuccefs in oil 

 as in frefco ; and whilft painting the ceiling of the church 

 della Nunzlata, he unfortunately loft his 'ufe by a fall fronv 

 the fcaffold. 



He left three fons, all artifts, among w^hom Francifco 

 Marie diftinguifkedhimfelf moft, by painting landfcapes and 

 marine fubjefts. 



Borzoni etched many of his own compofitions with a con- 

 fiderable portion of tatte, among which the following will 

 probably be found to poftefs moft merit : a portrait of 

 Guiftiniani; "St. Peter delivered from Prifon ; ' "The 

 Vulture prey in? on Prometheus;" all of which are in Ato. 

 Some Holy Families, MadonnaS; and o'her devotional fub- 

 jefts, coiiilitute the remainder of his works on copper. 



Vefpafiano Strada was the fon of a Spanifli painter of 

 fome eminence, but was born at Rome in the year 1591, 

 during the refidonce of his parents in that dty, where he died 

 at the age of thirty-fix. 



His works confift of etchings from his own compofitions, 

 executed in a painter-like ftyle ; flight and rapid, but maf- 

 terly and free. Thofe held in moft eftimation arc " Pontius 

 Pilate producing Chrift to the People," half figures, m 

 fmall folio ; the fame fubjeft, of the upright form ; "St. 

 Catherine adoring the Infant Chrift," in 4to. ; " Chrift 

 crowned with Thorns," in fmall 4to. ; "The Holy Fa- 

 mily, with St. John," ditto ; " The-Holy Virgin fupportcd 

 by Angels." His plates are generally marked with the 

 initial letters of his names. 



Of Alefl'andro Algardi, a Bolognefe artift, who lived at 

 this period, we have already treated. (See Ai.gaupi.) 

 To the engravings we ha\e mentioned by him, the coUeftor 

 fhould add " The Cries of Bologna," confifting of eighty 

 4to. prints after Caracci, engraved by Algai-d^ in conjunc- 

 tion with Simon Guillain. 



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