ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



graTings by Leone : two landfcapes, v-ith animals, in quarto, 

 and " Venus blinding Cupid," from Titian, in folio. 



Luca Carlevariis, furnamed Zeiiobio, was born at Udino, 

 in Italy, A.D. i66j, and died at Vi-nice in 1729. He ex- 

 celled in painting landfcapes and marine fubjeCts. He like- 

 wife engraved a fct of views of Venice, confifting of one 

 hundred large plates lengthways, which were puhlifhed in 

 1 703;. His prints are ihglit, but bold and fpirited etchings ; 

 and give us clear ideas of the places they are intended to re- 

 prefent. We can only fpecify the titles of the following 

 two: a view of the church of St. Nicolas de Caftello, at 

 Venice ; and one of St. Marie Formofa, at the fame place, 

 both in folio. 



Of the family of Cresi'i we have already fpoken, as fee 

 that article. Giofeffo Maria employed a long life of up- 

 wards of fourfcore years, in the practice of the various arts of 

 which imitation is tlie bafis, in the courfe of which he etched 

 leveral plates, which do credit to his general reputation, and 

 which we omitted to mention in vol. x. Among them we 

 venture to recommend the following as mod worthy of the 

 notice of the connoifTeur. 



A grand compoiition, in large folio, of " The MafTacre of 

 the Innocents ;" two folio plates in the manner of Rem- 

 brandt, of which " The Refiirredion" is the fubjecx ; " The 

 miraculous Crucilixion of Pilloia ;" " St. Anthony," alio 

 in the manner of Rembrandt, and of the oval form ; a folio 

 plate of " Two Shepherds," one of them afleep. and the 

 -other making the fign of filence. A fet of five, in the taile 

 of Salvator Rofa, of various mechanical occiipations ; and 

 a very rare portrait of Michael Angelo Tamburini. 



Pietro da Pietri, or Pitri, was born A.D. 1^)65, accord- 

 ing to fome authors, at Rome ; others place !iis birth at 

 Prcmia, in the Milanefe territory. He learned the princi- 

 ples of art of Jof. Ghezzi and Carlo Maratti, who em- 

 ployed him in copying fome of the principal works of Ra- 

 phael, and other celebrated Ita ian mailers. He died at 

 Rome in tlie year 1716. 



Notwithilanding that Pietri employed great part of his 

 time in copying, we have feveral- meritorious hiitorical pic- 

 tures by him from his own compofitions ; thofe efpecially, 

 which he painted for the church of St. Clement at Rome. 

 He etched fome few plates,and among themtlie tv/o following 

 will probably be found moll worthy of notice. " The Af- 

 fumption of tlie Virgin," a middling-fized upright ; and 

 " St. Lawreuce the .lullinian," a fmaJI upright, both from 

 his own compofitions. 



Francefco -Antonio Lorenzini, known by the name of 

 brother Antonio, was born at Bologna A.D. 1665. He 

 was an ecclefiallic of tlie order of St. Francis ; but turning 

 liismind to the arts, he fir(l iludied painting under I^orenzo 

 Pafinelli: being, however, better pleated with etching, he was 

 induced to throw afide his pencils for the love of aquafortis 

 and copper- 

 In 1699 he travelled to Florence, where he engraved great 

 part of the plates for the galler)- of the grand duke of Tuf- 

 cany, in conjunction with Theodore Ver-Cruvs, Cofmo Mo- 

 galli, and I'icluanti ; and during his abi'ence from Bologna, 

 he was agreeably furpnfed by finding himfelf eleftcd a mem- 

 ber of the Clementine academy. Lorenzini was a very in- 

 dullrious man, and left a great number of prints from differ- 

 ent mailers: "which, however, it mull be acknowledged do 

 him no great credit as an artill ; among them tlie following 

 are the bell : " Mofes linking the Rock," a large plate 

 lengthways, from Baffan ; " St. Anthony of Padua per- 

 forming a Miracle," from Pafinelli ; " The Martyrdom of 

 St. Urfnla and her Companions ;" " St. .John preaching in 

 the Defcrt," all of lar^e folio fize, froRi Palinelll ; "Jcfus 



Chrift in a Glory," with other figures, from L. Caracci ; 

 " The Virgin and Child," half figures, from Aug. Caracci, 

 both in folio ; " The Beatification of St. Dominic, accom- 

 panied by Jefus Chrift, the Virgin, and Angels," from Guido, 

 a large circular plate; " St.Phlhp Neri kneeling before a pic- 

 ture of the Virgin, furrounded by Angels," from Carlo 

 Maratti ; " St. John in the Clouds, furrounded by Angels," 

 from Corregglo, both in large folio ; "The Annunciation," 

 from Paul Veronefe, in large folio ; " The Baplifm of 

 our Saviour," of the fame fize ; " Tlie Refufcitation of 

 Lazarus," on three large plates, all from Paul Veronefe ; 

 " Jefus Chrill on the Sea with St. Peter," from L. Cordi ; 

 "The Conllruftlon of Noah's Ark," from Jac. Baflano ; 

 *< Venus with Two Cupids," from Carlo Cignani ; " St. 

 Auguftino in the Air, furrounded by Rays of Glory," from 

 Tintoret, all of large folio fize ; " .Tofeph fold by his Bre- 

 thren," after Andrea del Sarto, in two large folio leaves; 

 " Jofepii in Egypt ;" " Saul and David with the Head of 

 Goliah," from Gnerciihio ; " The Pilgrims at Emaus ;" 

 " St. Peter delivered from Prlfon," both from the fame 

 painter, all In folio ; " The Holy Women at the Sepulchre," 

 from P. de Cortona, a circular print ; and " St. Margaret 

 of Cortona, to whom the Virgin appears in the Clouds," 

 from Gab. Caliari, in large folio. 



The monogram of .-intonio Baleilra will be found in 

 our Plate 111. of thofe ufed by the /Wwn ^H-ratrrj. Of 

 the leading events of his life we have already treated. (See 

 B.\i.E.si itA.) His llyle of etching was bold and mallerly, 

 tliough (light ; and his moil efteemed prints are, a warrior's 

 head, and two foldiers, both fmall plates; " The Holy 

 Virgin feated in the Clouds, with the Infant Jefus and Sr. 

 John, the Heads of three Cherubs appearing above ;" 

 " The three Angels vifitliig .Abraham ;" a vignette in- 

 fcribed " Verona fideli^," all fmall uprights, and rare. His 

 portrait of the architect Michel San Michell, furrounded 

 with allegorical a'lufions, and marked with the engraver's 

 monogram, is in fmall folio. 



Benedetto Lutti was an eminent painter of Florence, 

 who fometimes amufcd himfelf with etching, and whofe 

 works are generally and jullly efteemed. He was born in 

 the year 1666, Rudied under Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, 

 and died at Rome in 1 724. 



Strutt fays of this artlft, that his merits procured him, 

 from the elector of Mentz, the honour of knighthood, ac- 

 companied by a prefent of a crofs enriched with diamonds,' 

 but fpecifies only two of his etchings, both of which are 

 become extremely rare. The fubjecis of thefe etchings 

 are, a landfcape after Guercino, in fmall folio ; and " Tlie 

 Crucifixion, with St. John and Mary Magdalen at the Foot 

 of the Crofs," a fmall upright, from a compofition by Lutti 

 himfelf. 



Cofmo Mogalli was a native of Italy, and the difciple 

 of Giovanni Battifta Foggiui, a Florentine fculptor. He 

 was born at Florence in the year 1667, and died in the fame 

 city in 17.50. He worked in co:!Jiincf ion with Antonio 

 Lorenzini, (of wliom'we have recently treated,) and other 

 engravers, on the plates from the Florentine gallery, for the 

 duke of Tufcany. AVe llkewife have by him many plates 

 for a book of Etrufcan antiquities, publilhed by Thomas 

 Dempller, at Florence, in 1724. 



The following prints, from the Florentine gallery, are 

 from the graver of the elder Mogalli, i>tz. " A. Holy 

 Family, or the Repofe in Egypt," from Albano, a circular 

 print in folio ; another " Holy Family," from Corregglo, 

 of the fame fize ;" " The Supplication of Marfias," from 

 Guercino, in large folio ; " Eve prcfenting the Apple to 

 Adam," from Gabr. Caliuri, in folio; " The penitent 



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