ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



Magdalen tranflated to Heaven by an Angel," from Ca- 

 . racci, in large folio ; " Adam and Eve difmifled from 

 Paradife," from Caliari, in folio ; " St. Benedift inilituting 

 his monadic Oidtr," from P. Vcronefe ; " Jcfiis Clirill at 

 the Table with the Pilgrims of Emaus," from Palma the 

 elder ; " The Marriage of St. Catherine," from Era. Bar- 

 tolomeo, all in large folio ; " Virtutes Amor et Numen," 

 an allegorical figure from Riminaldi, in folio ; '• David and 

 Bathflic-ba," from Fr. Salviati ; this and all the following 

 are in large folio ; " The Annunciation," from And. del 

 Sarto ; " Tlie Adoration of the Shepherds," from Titian ; 

 a bacchanalian dance by four figures ; and Philip II. king 

 of Spain, alfo from the fame painter. 



• Nicolas Mogalli was the fon of Cofmo, and alfo an 

 engraver. He'vas born at Florence in the year 1 723, from 

 whence, either for improvement or patronage, he travelled 

 to Rome, where he engraved, with moderate fuccefs, from 

 the cabinet of Portici, and the plates, after the defigns of 

 Cafanova, for " I.es Monumenti antichi iiiediti fpiegati et 

 illuftrati da Giovanni Winkelmann," a folio work, which was 

 publidied at Rome in tl\e year 1767. 



Jacques Maria Giovanni, or Jiivanus, was born at Bologna 

 in the year 1667, and died at Parma in 1717- He was the 

 difciple of Antonio Roli, and became a painter of fome 

 eminence. He alfo praftiffd engraving and etching, and 

 executed many large works from L. Caracci and Cor- 

 reggio. The'moft confiderable work he engaged in was 

 a cabinet of medals for the duke of Parma, in feveral folio 

 volumes. His prints are of very unequal merits. As far as 

 they can be fpokcn of generally, they are executed with tole- 

 rable care and (kill, but are deficient in chiarofcuro, and more 

 or lefs fo in drawing. The bell of them are engraved from 

 the piftures of the cloiilers of St. Michael in Boico, painted 

 by L Caracci, and other celebrated mailers of his fchcol, on 

 I'q plates in folio ; the cupola of the church of St. John of 

 the Benedidincs at Parma, reprefenting " The Afcenfion of 

 our Saviour," &c. &c. on 12 plates, from thofejiillly famed 

 piftures by Correggio, which can now only be known by 

 the engravings, the paintings themfelves being no longer in 

 e.Kiilence ; the Holv Virgin in a landfcape, with the Infant 

 Chrift in her arms, 'with St. Jerome and Mary Magdalen, 

 the latter of whom is kifling the feet of the child (a fub- 

 jefl; commonly known under the name of " Tlie Day of 

 Correggio") ; the Virgin feated on a pedeilal wirh the 

 lufant'^Chrill, known by the nam,- of" St. George," who 

 is the principal figure, and by fome eReemed the chef- 

 d'ccuvr.e of Correggio ; " St. Sebatlian fallened to a Tree 

 with liis Hands behind his Back," in folio, from Caracci ; 

 " Jefus Chriil giving the Communion to his Apollles," 

 from Fraucefchini, a verv- excellent print of large dimen- 

 fions, and of the upright form. 



Andrea Procaccini was born at Rome in the year 1667, 

 and was the pupil of Carlo Maratti. He became a painter 

 of fome celebrity, and was chofen by pope Clement XI. 

 to paint the twelve prophets of the Old Tellament, for the 

 church of St. John de Lateran. In 1720, he was invited 

 to Spain, with the title of painter to tiie Royal Cabmct. 

 Here he painted feveral pictures for the royal palace, and 

 died at St. Ildefonfe, A.D. I7.U- '^^'c have feveral en- 

 gravings by this mailer, both from his own compofitions, 

 and thofe of other painters, among which the following few 

 are fclected as imoft worthy of the notice of the coUeftor : — 

 «'The Difciples at Emaus," from Raphael; '« The Af- 

 cenfion of our Saviour;" a large group of figures, with a 

 youth carrying his father on his fhoulders, both from Ra- 

 phael ; " The Birth of Bacchus ;" " Diogenes' throwing 

 a-*ay bis Cup ;" and " Cleliui a:id liis Companions pafling 



the Tiber," all from Carlo Maratti, and of folio dinicn*- 

 fioiis. 



Giovanni Dominico Picchianti was born at Vciiice 

 A.D. 1670, and was the fcholarof J. B. Foggiiii, a fculptor 

 of fome eminence. The produiflions of Picchianti have no 

 great fhare of excellence to rec(mimend them, for he 

 \vorked in a coarfe Hight ftylc, and his drawing is rather 

 mannered than correCl. He engraved many of the plates 

 from the pidlures in the grand Florentine gallery, in con- 

 junclion with Lorenzini, Vcr-Cruys, and Mogalli ; and like- 

 wife fome portraits, among which are, thofe of an unknown 

 female, from Raphael, in folio, a whole length of Seballiaii 

 del Piombo, from Titian, and cardinal Bentivoglio, from 

 Vandyke ; thofe of cardinals Louis de Rofll and Julius 

 de Mcdicis, on the fame plate, are from Raphael, and all arc 

 of large folio fi/.c. 



The beil hiilorical works of Picchianti are, " The Virgin 

 fitting on a Chair," or the celebrated Madonna dclla Sedia 

 of Raphael ; a half figure of" The Virgin, with the Infant 

 .Tefiis, and St. Jolin," from Caracci, in folio ; " Paying 

 Tribute to Cxfar," commonly called " II Chrifto della 

 Monetta," from Titian ; " The Virgin and Child," from 

 the fame painter ; and " Agar returning to the Houfe of 

 Abraham," from P. de Cortona, all cf large folio dimen- 

 fions. 



Fiancifco Antonio Meloni was a native of Bologna, and 

 born in the year 1670. At an early age he appeared fond 

 of painting, and was accordingly ji'aced under Francefchini ; 

 but time difcovered that his difpofiiion was not formed for 

 the attainment of excellence in that art, and lie then took 

 up the graver with mucli better fuccefs. He engraved 

 chiellv from the piftures of his mailer, and other Bolognefe 

 painters ; but the latter years of his life were fpent at 

 Vienna, where he died in the year 17 13. The following 

 are reckoned among his bell engravings : — " The Adora'.ioii 

 of the Shepherds," a middling-fized upright plate, from 

 Carlo Cignani ; and " Aurora," from a ceiling at Forli 

 by the fame mailer, both in folio. 



Of the merits of Fu.xNcisco and Pietro Am.ii,.\ we 

 have already treated. (See thofe biographical articles re- 

 fpedlively.)' But of artills fo dillinguiftied it has been 

 judged proper to fubjoin, in this place, lills of the principal 

 works on which their reputation has been founded. Tlie 

 bell of thofe by the elder Aquila are " Saint Rofalie," from 

 his own compo'fition, in folio ; " Mars binding his .\rms to 

 a Tree," in large folio ; " Cardinal Cafini as a Capuchin," in 

 folio ; " Cardinal Jofeph Maria of Thomafis," from P. 

 Nelli, of the fiime fize ; " Tiic Lall Supper," from AU 

 bam>, infcribed " Unus ex vobis. Sec'' in large folio ; the 

 firil vaulted roof of mofaic in the church of the Vatican, 

 from Ciro Ecrri ; two cupolas, one in the chapel of the 

 Holy Sacrament, the other in the church of St. Seballian 

 of the Vatican, from P. de Cortona ; another cupola, fro!n 

 the fame mailer, painted in the church of St. Philip of 

 Neri, all large circular prints ; a group of heroes, to whom 

 Minerva prefents a crown of laurel, and Mars a fword, a 

 folio print.- from And. Bonfigli ; " The Battle of Conltan- 

 tine and Maxeiitius," from And. Camalfei ; and "The 

 Triumph of Coiiilantine," both very large ; " The dead 

 Body of Chriil acrofs the Knees of his Mother, accom- 

 panied by Mary Magdalen and St. Francis," from Caracci, 

 in lar"-e folio ; '" The Arrival of the Body of St. Helena 

 annoimcod by a Bidiop to the Virgin," in folio; " The 

 Repofe," wliere the holy Virgin is reprefentcd feated under 

 a tree with the infant, and in the back-ground St. Jiifeph 

 onhisafs; " St. Peter's Bark," from l.anfranc, in large 

 folio ; a very large folio print of •< Oiir Saviour in a Glory, 



