ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



Iiis native place m the year 1775. ^^'^ "'*' °f ^ 

 family, of whom the greater part were ^rtiUs His father 

 was a fcnlptor, and intended Carlo for that profeffion ; but 

 finding he had more inclination to become a painter, placed 

 him under Julio Qualio, under whofe inftruftion he foon be- 

 came remarkable for talent and induftry, and occafionally 

 both painted and engraved. In his pictures lie produced a 

 rich and agreeable effect, and made fomc advances toward 

 combining the merits of the Roman and Venetian fthools. 

 Of his en,{ravings, of which we caimot fay quite fo much, 

 the following are lield in moll eftecm : " A Holy Family, 

 wherein St. John is kiffing the Feet of the Infant Saviour;" 

 and " The Miraculous Conception," both of 410. fize ; 

 " St. Charles Borroiieus adminiftering to the Sick, during 

 the Plagne at Milan," in folio ; three plates of ceilings, in 

 4to., in one of wliich is a group of children with flowers ; 

 and the death of a faint, of folio dimenfions. 



Andrea Zucclii was born at Venice in the year 16S0, 

 where he engraveil a fet of twelve plates of Venetian habits, 

 and many other fubjcCls for the libraries. In 1726, he was 

 invited to Drefden to paint theatrical fcencs and decorations ; 

 and on his return to his native city he engraved mofl of the 

 plates for the col'.crtion publifaed by Lovifa, conlifting in 

 the whole of fifty-fevcn plates, from the mod celebrated 

 piclures at Venice ; but his talents as an engraver never 

 rofe above mediocrity. Among his belt produfticns are, 

 " The Angel Raphael conducting the young Tobias," in 

 large folio, from' Titian ; " St. John the Evnngelill," of 

 the fame iize, from tlie fame painter ; " St. Barnabas Vef- 

 cova, St. Peter, St. John, and other Saints," from the 

 picture which D.Varotari painted for the church of St. 

 Barnabas : " St. John the Baptill," from P. Veronefe ; 

 •' The Martyrdom of Paul Eriz/.o," from P. Longho ; 

 " The Nativity of the Virgin," from a piatirc by Nic. 

 Bambiui; '« M.mna gathered in the Defert," from Jofeph 

 Porta, a circular print ; " Cybcle on her Car drawn by 

 Lions," from a frefco by Tintoret ; a:id " Eneas faving 

 his Father and Son from the Conflagration of Troy," after 

 S>b Ricci ; ail of largo folio dimenlions. 



Francefco Ziicchi was the younger brother of Andrea, 

 under whofe inflruCtion he Ihidied the elements of art. In 

 the year 17 Jo, he was invited to Drefden to paint for the 

 electoral gallery, but was interrupted by the war, which 

 obliged tiim to return to his native country, where he 

 worked chiefly for the bookfcUcrs. He engraved feveral of 

 the pla-es fram the pictures in the Drefden gallery ; among 

 which' the following will probably be foimd on the whole to 

 deferve a preference ; the portrait of Efpagnol, from Ru- 

 bens ; ditto of a woman who refembles the firil wife of 

 Rubens, both in folio ; ditto of Jacques Antonio Murani, 

 from Jean da Anto;ia, in an oval of folio Cr^.c ; '■ St. Helena 

 worfhipping the Crols," from Bettin: CignaroUi, in folio ; 

 " The Martyrdom of Rcligio"," an allegorical fubjei t, in 

 folio ; " Religion and the Sciences contemplatinsr tlie Por- 

 trait of a Cardinal," in folio ; and " Apollo with his Lyre," 

 furrounded with ornaments, of large quarto fr/.e. 



Lorenzo Zucchi was the fon of Andrea, and was born at 

 Venice in 1704. When his father was invited to Drefden, 

 in the year 1726, I.,oren/.o accompanied him, and liavii'g 

 been inltruck-d in the elements of engraving, he continued to 

 praftife it in that metropolis with fuccefs, and was honoured 

 with the title of engraver to the court of Drefden. Moll 

 of his produftions are from the Drefden gallery, and among 

 them the following have been thought the moll woithy ot 

 notice. 



Porlrmls. — Herman Charles Kevferling, count of the 

 ho'v Roman empire, from .'^.nna Maria Werner, in brge 



Vol. XIX. 



folio ; John Frederick, prince of Sapicha ; lionavotttiira 

 Roin, painter to Auguftus III. ; Louis de Silvellre, firil 

 painter to Auguftus III. ; L'Abbatc Pietro MctatlafiO, 

 Poeia, &c. all of large folio fize. 



Furious Suhja'is front ths Drefden CaUery. — " The fevrn 

 Sacraments." from Jofeph M. Crefpi ; " The Martyrdom 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul," from Nic. del Abbate ; (P. 

 Tangi likewife engraved this pidurc, which engraving, ai 

 well <as that of Zucchi, will be foimd in the colleclion from 

 this gallery;) "St. Catherine receiving the Crown of Immor- 

 tality," after a copy by Erafmus Quelinus, from Rubens ; 

 "A grand Sacrifice to Venus," from G Laireffe; "The Sup- 

 plication of Marfyas, ' from J. B. Langctti, all of large fo- 

 lio (i/.e ; and "The Archangel Michael precisitating the 

 Dragon," from Stcft". Torelli ; " St. Jofeph, with the Infant 

 Ch;i!l in his Arms," from Jof. Angelli, in the gallery of the 

 count de Brulil ; two landfcapes, entitled " Soggiorno pallo- 

 rale, and " Campagnc aperta," from Jof. Roos ; 'J The lad of 

 the Csfars," two half figures, one of which reprcfents Titian, 

 marked Tizianus f. L. Zucchi delin. et fculp. engraved in 

 the (lyle of Pittcri; and " David with the Head of Goliah," 

 from L. Jordane, all of folio dimenfions. 



Jerome Ferroni was born at Milan in the year 16S7. 

 He painted the death of St. Jofeph, fcr the church of St. 

 EfiUorgio, and afterwards travelled to Rome, where he 

 worked' fome time in the fchool of Carlo Maratti, after 

 whofe pictures he etched the following fubjects, in the flight 

 fpiriied ilyle of a painter, but with great ta'te ; " The iiun 

 (landing Itill at the Command of Jolhua ;" " Deborah fing- 

 ing tlie celebrated Canticle, after the Victory over Sifcra," 

 and "The Death of Sifera," all in Urge f> lio ; "The 

 ChMlity of Jofeph," in quarto; and "Judith beheading 

 Holofernes," in folio. 



Giovanni Antonio Faldoni, was born at Afcolo in the 

 year 1690. He learned painting under Antonio Luciani, 

 and likewife praftifed engraving. Faldoni worked chic-fly, 

 if not entirely, with lheg"i-aver, frequently imitating the llyie 

 of Mellan with no incontiderable degree of fuccefs ; on the 

 whole, he merits the encomium of having been an artiit of 

 ability. His bell prints are the portraits of the d-.-gos of 

 Venice, the procurators of St. Mark ; various antique ftatues, 

 making part of two volumes in folio, of Venetian antiques; 

 part of the deligns of Parmegiano, for the collection in two' 

 folio volumes publilhed by Zanetti ; a portrait of Antonio 

 Maria Zanetti, fnmi Rofalba, in folio ; Marco Ricci, from 

 Rofalba, in folio ; " Soballianus Ricci Bel uncnfis Pidor, 

 fua; actafis facile primus, annum agens LX." in folio ; 

 "A Holy Family in a Landfcape, with Angels mini(lci> 

 intr," from S. Ricci, in large folio ; " The Conception of 

 the Virgin," fr.«m the lame mailer ; " Tlie Nativity of or.r 

 Saviourt" from P. de Cortona ; " David playing the Harp 

 before Saul,"" from Jof. Canterata the elder ; " David flying 

 from the An"-er of Saul,"' from the fame mailer, ail of lolio 



Antonio Baldi was a native of Cava, in the kingdom tf 

 N.iples, and was born in the year 1692. He lludicd tht rudi- 

 ments of painting under Sol'imer.e; and learned engraving 

 of Maghar. He cllablilhed himfelf as an engraver at Naples, 

 and en<riaved for the moll part after Solimene, but ccca- 

 lionally from his own compofitions. The following arc 

 foiv.j of his bill engravings ; the portraits of the emperor 

 Charles VI. in an oval of folio fize ; Don Carlos, king of 

 the Two Sicilies, of the fame fize and form ; Nicholas Cyril- 

 lus, a phyfician ; Maria Aiirelia Carraccioli, a nun ; St. 

 Ignatius of Loyola, ill an oval, «it!i accefl"orics ; and Ra- 

 phael Manca, accompanied by an angel, alfo in an oval ; 

 " The Communion of St. Mary the Eif>ptian," imcnbtd 

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