ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



learned the rudimental principles of art of J. B. Spezzini, a 

 Genocfc painter. He was an enjjraver of mcric, and exe- 

 cuted feme plates in a very fpirited and plealing ilyle. His 

 h"ads were goiieially beautiful, and his attitudes elegantly 

 chofen. It is to be regretted that he died early, and en- 

 graved but little ; nor arc we able to fjjecify any of his works. 



The name of Bartoli, (for whofe life fee Baktoi.i,) 

 fhould have been honoured with a more ample lilt of his 

 bell produftions than we were able to give at the time of 

 publifliing the third volume. TIk- collector will probably 

 be highly gratified to polfefs the following. 



farious Jlnliqucs A fet of thirty-three, intitled " Ad- 



miranda Romanorum Antiquitatum ac veteris Sculpturx 

 Veiligia ;" with remarks by Bellori under each ; a hun- 

 dred and thirty-eight prints in folio, intitled " Romans 

 magnitudinis Monumenta ;" a fet of iifty-two, intitled 

 <' Veteres arctis Auguftorum triomphis infignes ;" a fet of 

 feventy-eight in large folio, intitled " Colonna di Marco 

 Aurelio, con brevi note da Gio. Pietro Bellori;" a fet of 

 one hundred and twenty-eight prints, intitled " Colonna 

 Trajana, di Alfonzo Ciacconi ;'" and another fet, coiifilling 

 of one hundred and thirty-two, intitled " Sepolcri antichi 

 Romani ed Etrufchi, trouvati in Roma ;" the aqueduft 

 which conducts the water from Civita Vecchia, with various 

 views in and about Rome, in four large prints ; a grand 

 fepiilchral urn of ftone, fi-om the Capitol ; two fubiecls 

 from the Aldobrandini Marriage, intitled " Nova Niipta in 

 geniali Talamo ;'' ninety-four in folio, intitled " Le Pitture 

 antiche dele Grotte di Romi« del Sepolcro do Nafoni, in- 

 tagliate da Pietro Santi Bartoli & Francefco Bartoli fuo 

 figlio, RomE," lOSoand 1706; a folio print, intitled "An- 

 tiquiffimi Virgihani Codicis Fragmenta & Piclura ;'' and a 

 hundred and nineteen pieces, intitled " Le Antiche Lucerne 

 Scpolchrale ;" a coUeftion of old pictures, correftly copied, 

 from coloured drawings made by Bartoli, Paris. 



After various Italian Majlas. — A fet of friezes, from the 

 Bible, on the chimney-pieces of tlie Vatican, by Raphael, 

 in twelve fmall pages ; another fet of the Hime, in fifteen 

 leaved ; another fet, from Raphael, intitled " Leonii X. 

 admiranda virtutis imagines ;" a fet of forty-three, of or- 

 naments and figures, intitled " Parerga atque ornamenta in 

 Vaticani Palatii Kiltis,'' by Raphael ; a fet of four, of the 

 divinities in cars; "Jupiter drawn by Eagles;' "Mars 

 byHorfes;" "Diana by Nymphs;" and "Mercury by 

 Cocks;" the hillory of Conllantine in friezes of different 

 forms, from the Vatican. " Giove che fulmina di Giganti ;' 

 (Jupiter accompanied by all the Gods, deflroying the 

 Giants,) from the celebrated pifture by Julio Romano, at 

 the palace of T at Mantua, in nine leaves; " The Hillory 

 of .St. Peter,-' from Lanfranc, in folio. 



Various feparate Suhjecls from Italian Majlers, — " The 

 Adoration of the Kings," from Raphael, (engraved on 

 three plates,) of large folio ; one of the linell productions of 

 Bartoli ; " The Infant Jupiter nouriflied by the Goat 

 Amalthea," from Julio Romano ; " Hylas ftolen by the 

 Nymphs;" " Sophonilba prefented to ^ia^ini(^a ;" " 7'he 

 Continence of Scipio," all of fulio ^v/.c, from the fame 

 painter; " St. John fhewing Chrill in the Dcfert," from 

 P. F. Mola; "The Birth of the Virgin," from Albano ; 

 " The Marriage of the Virgin, " from a pifture by Nieolo 

 Beretoni, in the church of St. Lorenzo in Borgo ; " Da- 

 niel inthe Lion's Den, " after an altar-piece by P. de Cor- 

 lona ; " The Virgin in Heaven with the Infant Jcfus, and 

 Saints," from L. Caracci, all of folio dimenfions ; " The 

 Mother and Wife of Coriolanus proftrate at his Feet ;" 

 •' St. Charles Borromeus brouglit by an Angel to tlie Tomb 

 wf Vetallo/'- both from Ann. Caracci. 



The foUown^ are from his otun Deji^ns — An oval, in 4to. 

 of " St. Stephen receiving the Crown of Martyrdom ;" 

 " St. Bernard chaining Satan ;" a large folio print of the 

 theatre crefled in the cathedral of St. Peter, for the 

 canonization of St. Peter of Alcantore, and " Mary Mag- 

 d.ilen,'' engraved conjointly with Falda ; the fepulchral mo- 

 nument of'pope Urban VIII. infcribed " Petr. Sanc^. Bar- 

 tohis del ct fc. ; " and an ancient maufoleum, from Tivoli, 

 with the figure of a lion, from P. de Cortona, in large folio. 

 The grand catafalco, or funeral proccfilon of Sobicflci, 

 king of Poland, after Sebaftian Cipriani, in large folio, was 

 engraven by Francefco Bartoli, a Roman by birth, and the 

 fon. pupil, and fucceflor of Pietro Sante, who fometimes 

 worked on his father's plates, but was inferior to him in 

 talent and reputation. 



Giovanni Baptilla Falda, a very excellent engraver of 

 landfcape and architecture, was born, in the year 1640, at 

 Valdu^gia, in the Milaneie, from whence he' travelled, for 

 profeffional improvement, to Rome. Whofe difciple he 

 was does not appear ; but he executed his plates in a clear 

 neat ilyle, bearing no fmall refemblance to that of Ifracl 

 Silvellre. He dreiv and engraved a great number of views 

 of palaces, churches, gardens, &c. in Rome and its environs, 

 which he enriched with fmall figures, drawn and engraved 

 w^ith great talle. And in the year 1676 he engraved a very 

 large view of Rome on twelve plates. His works ai'e nu- 

 merous, and defervedly held in high eftimation. Among 

 them the following will be found to deferve the particular 

 notice of the connoiii'cur. Two fine views of the fquare of 

 Navonne, intitled "Fontana in Piazza Navonna,'' and " Altra 

 Veduta in Piazza Navonna," erected by Bernini, in folio. 

 Two other vieus, in large folio, of the Bafilico at the Va- 

 tican, and the fountain of the Balilico. A very large view, 

 lengthways, of St. Peter's, with twelve of the moil celebrated 

 edifices in Rome, on the fame plate, very rare. A view of 

 the interior of St. Peter of the Vatican, with the beatifica- 

 tion of St. Francis of Sales, m large folio ; and a very 

 large view of the caitle and bridge of St. Angelo, from 

 Bernini. 



Matteo Thommafo Piccioni was born at Ancona A. D. 

 i6;7, and became a member of the Academy of St. Luke 

 in the year l(i^^. Piccioni holds a dillinguilhcd rank among 

 thofe artills who worked in Mofaic, and executed in that 

 ftyle the pictures of the cupola of tlie chapel of St. Peter 

 at Rome, in conjunction with Fabius Chrilloferi and Ho- 

 race Manenti. He etched fome few plates, among which 

 are the following, all of folio fize. " St. Luke painting 

 tlie Virgin," from a picture by Raphael; "The Ad.)ra- 

 tion of the Shepiierds," from Paul 'V'eronefe ; " A Holy 

 Family," from tlie fame painter; " The Virgin wilh the 

 Infant Chriil, who is reprefented fleeping, and St. Jolin at 

 his fide," from Andrea Camalfei ; and "The Infant Mofes 

 carried by liis J.Iother in the Ark of Bulrulhes," from the 

 fame painter. 



Dominica Maria Bonarera was born at Bologna about 

 the beginning of the lall century : he learned the principles 

 of drawing and etching of his uncle, D. M. Canuti. Among 

 his works, thofe that he executed after Titian for an edition 

 of the anatomical work by Vefalius, for the life of lludents, 

 are the moll eftecmed, many of which, after being etched, 

 were finilhed with tiie dry point. A monogram, which 

 was common to him and i)ominic Barricre, will be found 

 in our Plate III. of thofe ufed by the Italian Engravers; 

 and the following are fclefted from the catak)gues of hig 

 works, as thofe moll worthy attention ; " ,St. Ann teaching 

 the young Virgin Mary to read," from Dom. J^I. Camiti, 

 IB folio J " St. Tlicreiia with the Infaiil Chrill ;" " The 



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