ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



line is dvy and inexprefiivc, while in his " Meditation of De- obfcure, is alfo afcribed to Cafliglione ; " The Adoration 



mocritus,'" and his allegorical pri.st commonly known by the of the Sheplu-rds ; a night-fcene with " The Interment of 



title of the " Genius of Salvator," he has tntered much St. Peter and St Paul j" another night-piece, with the 



more into the detail of forms, and expreSTed the fuWlances efFeft of torch-light, of which the fubjetl is " Philofophers 



of the bones, reptiles, &c. which lie ftrewed about, with tafte vifiting a Cemetery," all of folio dinienficns ; two of the 



and with truth. proportions of a frieze, of which one is " Pan inftrufting 



The cypher with which this great mailer marked his etch- Apol'o on the Flute, ' and the other " Sileiius with his 



ings, v.hich amount to between eighty and ninety in num- Flute, and a Shepherdefs playing the Tympanum ;" " A 



ber, all from his own compofitions, will be found in our Combat between two marine Horfes ;" " A drunken Si- 



P/fl/.- I'll, of thok oi the Itcliiin School. lenus, with three Satyrs; a bacchanahan fubjeft, with a 



The following lift of his prints will be found nearly, if fatyr on the ftatue of Priapus ; a menagerie of hens, turkey 



not quite, complete ; — An octavo bock, containing 60 plates cocks, and drakes ; alandfcape, infcribed " Gio. Benedetto 



of banditti, in various military and other dreffes, fome tingle Cafliglione. Gen. fee. 1658;" another landfcape in form 



■figures, and others in groups; a fet of fix, confilling of tri- of a frieze; "A {hepherd Boy watering his Flock;" 



tons, nereids, and other marine monfters, in the lengthened " Shepherds riding and on foot, conducing their Flocks ;" 



proportion of friezes; a fet of four, in fmall folio, of "Apol'o " A Capuchin Friar, marked witli the letter T, difcovering 



and Daphne," " Glaucus and Scylla," " Ceres inflrufting the Body of St. Jerome," in folio; and eleven fmall 



Phytali in the Art of Agriculture," and " Jafon and the vignettes of various fizes, finifhed with the dry point. 



Dragon;" of the fame fize are two plates of " St. William Bernardino Capitelli was boin at Sienna in the year 



.doing Penance," and " A Soldier fieeping on his Shield." 1617, and received ihftruclions both from Cafolani and 



" Plato with his Difciples in the Garden of Academus," RutiHus Mr.netti, but never attained to any confiderable 



" Diogenes throwing away his Cup," " Democritus me- eminence. In his ftyle of engraving, he mingled etching 



ditaiing," " Alexander vifiting the School of Apelles," with the work of the graver, but his execution is ccarli? 



and " Alexander vifiting Diogenes," are of the fame large and heavy, and his outline incorrecV. Among other plates 



toho dimenfions : in the lall, Salvator Rofa has committed of lefs importance, he engraved the hfe of the patron faint 



a tircat and palpable blunder, for Diogenes is defiriug (Bernard) of his native city, on 12 fmall plates; "The 



Alexander not to intercept the rays of the fun, yet is him- Miracles of St. Anthony of Padua.'' a folio plate divided 



felf placed between the fun and Alexander ; a'l academy of into compartments ; " A Repofo," from his mailer Rutilius 



philofopliers, which is infcribed " Ingenius liber PiAor," Manelti ; " The Marriage of St. Catherine," after Cor- 



and "The Genius of Salvator Rofa," are alio in large rcggio ; and " Ceres drinking at the Cottage Door," after 



f)lio ; and in ftill larger folio are " The Execution of the Eifhiemer, from the fame pidlure which count Goudt has 



Tyrant Polycrates,'" a very grand compofition ; " Tiie Dif- engraven in a very fuperior manner. 



covcry of CEdipus on Mount Cytiicron ;" " The Death of Gracomo Pictini, or Piccina, was born at Venice A.D. 



Regulus ;" and ^of the upright form) " The Fall of the 1657. Under what mafter he ftudied is not known, but 



Giants." he worked chiefly with -the graver, in a (liif laboured ftyle. 



Carlo Sacchi of Pavia, whom Strutt, by miflake, ha~ without much effeft ; and the outlines of his figures are 



called a native of Batavia, etched a few plates of fmall im- exceedingly incorrecR. His brother William was likewife 



portance about tliis period. He was born in the year a. Venetian engraver, and engraved the porti-aits for the 



1616, (ludicd under Roifo. and died in his native city in " Conchifia Alelte," of .1 B. Fabri. Giacomo, on fome 



1706. " The Adoration of the Shepherds," from Tintoret, of his plates, ftylcs himfelf engraver to the king of France, 



and " The wife Men's offering," from Paul Veronefe, two The moll confiderable works he executed were a fet of 



large upi-ights, are among his bed produiSions. 30 portraits of the principal Venetian painters, affixed to 



Now alio lived Luigi, or Aloyfius Scaramuccia, who an account of their Hves ty Carlo Ridolfi, pubhfhed at 



obtained the addition of Perugino, from the place of his Venice in 1 648; moft of the plates for a book, entitled 



birth. He fiudied under Guido, and, as an hillorical " Le Glorie degli Incognita ;" a portrait of Alexander 



painter, attained fome eminence, but never reached beyond Farnefe ; " Diogenes, with' his Lanthorn, fitting at the En- 



ir.cdiocrity as an engraver. Among his beil prints are, trance of his Tub," from P. Liberi ; " A Holy Family," 



" Chriil crowned with Thorns," a folio plate after Titian ; from the fame painter ; " Judith with the Head of Holo- 



*' Venus and Adonis," after Annibal Caracci ; and a large femes at her Feet," from Titian ; and " A Holy Family," 



folio print after Lodovico Caracci, from the legendary hillory in a landfcape, from the fame, all of folio dimenfions. 



of St. BencdiiS : The devil, it feenis, had canfed a large Giovanni Battifta Galcllrucci was born at Florence 



ilone, v.iiicii was to be ufed in building a certain church, A.D. l6r8. He learned the rudimeiits of painting of 



to be immoveable, and the faint broke the fpcll by the Francifco Furini, and was clecled a member of the Academy 



fervency of his prayers. of St. L>ke at Rome, A.D. 1652. He is mentioned as 



Of Benedetto Cailiglione, an arfift of very fuperior a painter, but is much better known as an engraver. He 



powers, who engraved fcvtral large plates at the period engraved in a neat, correft, and mailerly ftyle, and was for 



now under our review, we liave already treated. (See fome time the pupil of Delia Bella, after whofe death he 



C.\STiGl.iONE, Giov.iNNO Bk.\dktt<j.) His monogram finirtied fome plates which had been begun by that mafter. 



may be fcen in Pi'tHe III. of thofe of tlie Italian Engravers, His ftyle bears fome rcfemblance to that of Podefta. There 



and l!:c following talleful produclions from his hand, may area great number of prints by his hand, which in general 



with advantage be added to thofe contained in our former are marked with the cypher, which will be found in our 



lift; — "The Genius of Caftiglione," a folio print, which FlaU III. of the monograms of the Jtalitm Majhrs, and 



is generally placed as a frontifpiece to co'Ieftions of his of wliich Jean Jacques RofTi has given a catalogue, 



works ; a fet of fix heads, of which one is the portrait of Of thefe the moft confiderable are, a fet of antique gems, 



the artift ; " Tobit going forth to bury the Dead, with an in four volumes quarto, with explanations by Leonard 



EfFeft of Night," in foho ; another from the hiftory of Agoftino, publilhcd at Rome in the years 1657 and 1659 ; 



Tobit, whicli appeared without a name, and is in cluir- fevcval fcts of antique bas-reliefs and friezes, from Pohdoro 



Caravaggio, 



